Word: yawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...danger, then, is that the state governments will continue to do their present jobs a little better and to ignore the jobs they might do. Their decline may come not with a whimper but a yawn...
...Smith's sudden confession in a police car bearing him from capture in Nevada to trial in Kansas; the look of a wintry prairie sky; the chilling, offhand comments of the prisoners-"It's easy to kill," muses Smith -the juror surprised by spring fever into a yawn so cavernous that "bees could have buzzed...
...chorus and orchestra. Like the Siefried Idyll, it is pretty and pleasant, but dull. More than most composers, Brahms wrote music that varied from the great to the mediocre, and this piece is not one of his best. The performance was up to the music, competent, but a bit yawn-inducing...
...seven years the giant shadow of Charles de Gaulle has all but blacked out the Frenchman's interest in domestic politics. Hence the giant yawn that greeted De Gaulle's announced intention to succeed himself in the first direct presidential election in France since 1848. The nation seemed in for a pointless campaign and another seven years' imperium. But suddenly last week the picture changed. As the official two-week campaign got under way, De Gaulle's opposition - five candidates in all - proved far more alive and kicking than anyone had anticipated...
Perhaps at one time or another, the two of us are all of those. Sometimes we take to the streets, sometimes we yawn through interminable meetings, sometimes we talk with white men in their homes and offices...Sometimes we confront the posse, and sometimes we hold a child. Sometimes we stand with men who have learned to hate and sometimes we must stand a little apart from them...