Word: yawner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake up! The game's over, and the Bills are winners in a 9-6 yawner that saw no touchdowns and sent the nation to bed early. Federal investigators are now looking into whether they should assert their authority ? something this soporific should be regulated...
...obvious to have much poetic resonance. The dull Heart Factory, for example, is about--duh--a factory that makes hearts: "Now you can program how you feel before you walk out the door." It doesn't take Deep Blue to figure out that that metaphorical construct is a yawner...
Think you can't wait till Nov. 6 for the end of all the whiny negative ads, yawner debates and sloshing special-interest money? If you live in Dallas or Houston, tough luck. Things will only get worse after the election, as a handful of congressional races proceed into a political version of sudden-death overtime. Texas has been forced to stage its own set of December runoffs that could conceivably leave the rest of the nation wondering, for a full five weeks after the election, who will control the House...
...principal competition. Not bad. That's as many people as tune in for the average American Football Conference match on a November Sunday. Look at it a different way, and the ratings were a disaster: the biggest game in U.S. soccer history drew only as many viewers as a yawner between the Cincinnati Bengals and New England Patriots on a day when raking leaves is usually the alternative...
...first half, Harvard jumped out to an early lead, making this one look like a potential yawner...