Word: yawningly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...news stories of the 20th century, the Beatles' appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show was ranked 58th. Completion of Hoover Dam didn't make the cut. You sort of expect this from celebrity-infatuated mass culture: when it comes to fundamental achievements that make contemporary civilization work, a stifled yawn. Water, dams, aqueducts, irrigation, hydroelectricity--how borrrrrrring! Really? Los Angeles, world headquarters of celebrity culture, has measured as little as 5 in. (13 cm) of rainfall in a year. And despite occasional monsoons, Southern California is so chronically arid that it couldn't sustain a third of its current population...
...keyword search will yield disappointing results, primarily about religious establishments combating pornography. Yawn. Sweatshirt Boy heroically tries new searches with "sex" and "eroticism". No porn here. Sigh...
...conversation with my little sib and spend an afternoon together doing nothing at all. It's incredible to share a Saturday morning on a snow-covered basketball court in Central Square challenging her to another game of Around-the-World, without looking at my watch first or stifling a yawn...