Word: yawns
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...city of Boston is in even a more peculiar position, being situated in an area which takes its hockey very seriously, its basketball with a yawn and condescending "what's that?" One local morning paper, in fact, has never mentioned basketball in its columns--for reasons of its own, to be sure, but still leaving an emgarrassing gap in its columns that must be otherwise filled...
...Good Will was to "reflect a whole generation." That it does, as faithfully, as arbitrarily and almost as indiscriminately as a mirror set up in a public square. The Seventh of October takes its title from the last day in Romains' logbook, in Paris in 1933. Citizens yawn, rise, go to work. A girl visits her lover. An Englishman blushingly discusses sex. A priest talks about politics. Poincaré is ill, the U.S. debt is unpaid, Hitler is kicking up a row in Germany, and 25 years ago is 2,500,000 words away...
...Conservative because conservatism stands for private enterprise unfettered by bureaucracy. This inflames me, because I can't make him believe that private enterprise and capitalism, coupled with this country's social rules of class distinction, actually stifle initiative faster than the best blueblooded Tory can stifle a yawn...
...bomb started ticking in the dusky hour when Londoners yawn and struggle home in the crowded underground. Ever since the Hun dropped it on April 16, 1941, the 1,100-lb. time-bomb had been buried under 30 feet of earth in London's beautiful St. James's Park. Londoners had given it a nickname, "Annie"; and its site was officially noted. Throughout the changing weather of war, victory and peace, people hurried past it on the rebuilt Tarmac walk, and courting couples sat on the nearby lawns...
Other boats are pulling into position. Soon the LST bow-gates yawn open and amphtracks and amphtanks pop out like young sea horses. All around the rim of sea you can see nothing but our ships while overhead spotter planes dip, circle and mark fire for the big guns...