Word: yawners
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Commentators like James J. Kilpatrick toss out the phrase to register contempt for a federal complex preoccupied with its own navel. William Safire says the phrase connotes something "of interest to tea-leaf readers of Washington goings-on but (is) strictly a yawner to the World Out There." Author Ben Wattenberg defines "inside the Beltway" as the "exponential expansion of what used to be the Georgetown cocktail party--elitism that has lost touch...
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While Eliot was toying its way past hapless Quincy in a 12-0 yawner, surprising Mather House upended Lowell, 20-0, to claim second place and knock Lowell out of a tie for first and into a tie for third...