Word: rehashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter shows cost so much we have to cut down in summer and save money." Some old favorites will stay on, encouraged perhaps by the upswing in sales of portable TV models to vacationing patio and beach viewers. But mostly this summer's TV will be a rehash of the late season's mediocrity, with a few raw replacements thrown in. Network by network...
Such letters are often only a rehash of the previous day's trading, and are rarely models of literary clarity. They are so carefully hedged with ifs, ands and buts that the writer can always look back to prove omniscience, no matter which way the market turns. One recent sample: "If stocks hold at their present levels, the prospect of a continuation of the current trading range for the next few months appears likely. On the other hand, if the range is penetrated shortly on the downside, a deterioration of investor confidence could result in lower prices...
...them his "most realistic, experimental and artistic" shows (with Actors' Studio overtones). Tuesday is "problem-play-with-guts" day. "We pick them up with a comedy on Wednesday, if we can find one." Thursday he tries for an offbeat production, "with a gimmick twist," and Friday is a rehash of a Broadway play. Mostly, McCleery is in a Monday mood: "Here are my people. Look at them and listen to them. They are part of life...
...foreign exploits, Khrushchev began preparing for his major triumph as First Secretary: dominating his first party congress. His 47,000-word speech was loaded with tables of production, learned quotes from Lenin, and exhortations to efficiency and greater production. It sounded like (and might easily have been) a rehash of one of Stalin's old speeches. In Stalin's mighty fashion, Khrushchev took lofty cracks at top party comrades, referred to Malenkov as an "incorrigible braggart," and told how it had been "necessary to correct" Molotov on an important ideological point...
From time to time the virtues of the lecture system have been questioned sharply. The material in lectures could be covered much faster if it were mimeographed and read privately. And many lectures seem to have no value except as a convenient rehash of reading material, relieving students of the necessity of consulting their reading lists. If lectures have any utility it is when professors use them to express particular points of view forcefully, thus stimulating the sluggard mind of the undergraduate...