Word: yawned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aunt saw me yawn. "Sleepy? The plane ride from Beijing must have been so tiring. Lay down in my lap." I hesitated. She leaned over and pushed my head into her lap. It wasn't very comfortable. When my cheek could no longer stand the rough polyester of her slacks and a crick developed in my neck, I tried to sit up. But my aunt forced my head back down. I gave up. As I "slept," I suddenly heard retching noises in front and behind me. I sat up. Li Mei and Li Peng were holding smalll plastic bags...
...surging Braves -- San Francisco and Atlanta would be running away with their respective divisions. The details of National League realignment are still up in the air, but if Atlanta were in the new Central Division, all the N.L. division races would already be wrapped up, save for a yawn-inducing battle of mediocrities (Montreal, Houston and St. Louis) for the Miss Congeniality wild-card slot...
...screams out from the mundanity. Now all we get is some pretentious, self-proclaimed novelist giving us 50 pages of emotional history, followed by a long conjugal argument repeating the same. My interest usually lapses early on." Bob's childhood was rough. The lawnmower his father wielded intimidated him..." Yawn. Then we get mutual sexual histories. Yawn, yawn...
...think will take care of it." The last time the President told the nation to "stay tuned" was last fall. In the midst of Pat Buchanan's G.O.P. primary challenge, Bush's aides promised "new approaches" in his State of the Union address. The country waited and then yawned. Little new was offered. Another yawn this fall will send the President to retirement. If he really has "new approaches" up his sleeve, they had better be compelling...
...even flops in the self-pity department. Most of the tunes are simply yawn-inducing regurgitations of familiar material. Morrissey sounds unconvinced as he sighs, "All my life no one ever gave me anything." By the time he whimpers out a half-hearted "I wish I had the charm to attract the one I love...you see I've got no charm," you'll be inclined to agree...