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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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In February of 1954, thanks to an accelerated school program rather than any brilliance on my part, I graduated from Morris High School two months short of my 17th birthday. Except for a certain facility in unloading prams at Sickser's, a neighborhood store where I worked part time, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MY AMERICAN JOURNEY: Colin Powell | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

POWELL IS A POSITIVE ROLE MODEL FOR all of us, black and white. That is why I hope he resists all efforts to thrust him into the race for the White House. The election process has become dirty and boring, an affront to the intelligence of the American people. No...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 31, 1995 | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

My reaction to my self-doubt was to work twice as hard as I had ever worked in high school. And I did for a while. But it was damn tiring and more boring than suburbia had ever been. It is ironic, I guess, that it never occurred to me...

Author: By Robin J. Stamm, | Title: Struggling to Adapt to Harvard Can Be a Scary Experience | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

"I'd much prefer a job that's too exciting thantoo boring," he adds.

Author: By Susan A. Chen, | Title: Corporate Finance Attracts Class of '95 | 6/7/1995 | See Source »

But at least I understood how to get by in this really boring town where I lived. My new rule as Bone was, "Basically don't bother your parents and don't bother the cops or one of them will sic the other on you, because to them, to all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: FLOAT TRIP | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

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