Word: yawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes the bored Defense Department public relations officers make an effort, yawn, to explain that the U. S. is only bombing the NLF supply lines in Laos. But as Noam ???? defend the bombing of population centers and civilian targets in Northern Laos by saying that the U. S. is bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Nerthern Laos is at the opposite end of the country. Chomsky interviewed one Laotian refugee in a concentration camp outside of Vientiane recently who told him that the U. S. had bombed his village and forced them to move into the hills and build tunnels...
...start. In Lebanon, tourist guides around Baalbek's famous Roman ruins sidle up to adventurous-looking American kids and sell them not only cheap hash but identical cheap cardboard tourist suitcases to carry it in. Airport customs officials are so familiar with the suitcases that they almost yawn as they arrest the tourists who show up with them...
...decided that my first ride of this dark morning would be out to Ashmont, that is, Dorchester, the end of that red line. At 5:55 a.m., I yawned for the first time. At 5:55:5, I yawned for the second time. I began to think that I was going to yawn quite a bit before my day ended and wondered if I should start counting them. But there was the danger that I'd lose count at 10 p.m. or so, and then it'd all have been a waste of effort, so I rejected the idea...