Word: stale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shelves are stacked high with used, decaying paperbacks, works of Balzac, Stendahl, and Marx. An old wooden table, painted blue, runs along the middle of the store. On it sit a stack of copies of "The Daily World" and some paper cups half filled with stale coffee...
...brainiest public school staffs in the country. Eager, dedicated and inventive, with a heavy emphasis on the Ivy League-"I'm a bum," quips one principal, "but all my teachers wear Brooks Brothers suits"-they come early and stay late, refusing to bow to the stale pedagogic commands that emanate from 110 Livingston Street, the Board of Education's central office in Brooklyn. Many have attended law school, and regular teachers complain bitterly that they are in Ocean Hill only to escape the draft...
FORTUNATELY, the crowd wasn't in Gilligan's unenviable leadership position. Some of them sat there bored, complaining that the talk was "stale," or "phony." They would cop out when the V.C. did. Others, especially a group of McCarthy's ex-aides, stood near the podium, cheered wildly, made V-signals, and wore "Still With McCarthy" buttons. They were still in Oregon...
...Moliere's The Misanthrope is as deliciously vicious a lampoon of the manners and meanness of Louis XIV's court as it was 300 years ago, and it is performed with panache. But T. S. Eliot's 1950 spiritual parable, The Cocktail Party, seems stilted and stale in a limp production...
...kind of complete disavowal which can best pave the way for an across the board restructuring of U.S. foreign policy. Humphrey for his part makes the conventional liberal analysis of American society and its ills, and offers the conventional liberal formulas to remedy them. Nixon repeats the stale Republican refrain about high taxes and excessive government spending, and suggests that the good will and resources of private enterprise can somehow substitute for government action on the problems of the cities...