Word: yawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lecture was over and Vag's mechanism rumbled with what passes for a yawn in tape recorders. "No sections, no tutorial," he thought. "No wonder they said junior year was worth waiting for!" Bump, bump, bump, Vag maneuvered his way down the steps of Sever. "Off to fresh woods and pastures new," he mused cheerily as he rolled up the walk to Lamont...
...France's Double Tour?might win the festival's Golden Lion of St. Mark. But whatever prize // Generate won in the final voting, it had already earned the heartfelt gratitude of the festival's organizers by transforming a show that was turning into what some critics called "the 20th yawn ? festival.'' Before Rossellini turned up, there was even talk that the festival might die out altogether in the next few years...
...Stifled Yawn. Greta Garbo slipped into a royal blue bikini and plunged into the Mediterranean from her Cap d'Ail villa. Sir Winston Churchill and Maria Callas, the prima of prima donnas, cruised offshore in the yacht of Greek Shipowner Aristotle Onassis. The young Aga Khan, fresh from Harvard, kept happy a chateauful of guests, including pretty Tracy Pelissier. Belgium's King Baudouin holidayed solemnly at Cabassol with his sister Princess Joséphine-Charlotte and her husband, Prince Jean of Luxembourg. The week before, Adlai Stevenson had been playing tennis at St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Moviemaker Darryl...
...longer used for walking, but only to depress accelerators or shuffle through the cha cha cha. Long hours spent in low sports cars seemed to have given him a spinal slump. His flaccid hands may seem barely strong enough to steady a highball glass or stifle a yawn...
...another year, in different political circumstances, the speech might have been hailed for its firm stand on principle. But in Year 1959 it was met with coolness by the Democratic 86th, as, for example, when Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, with the television eye on him. smothered a yawn at the very moment that President Eisenhower promised to present a balanced budget...