Word: stale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,/ Seems to me all the uses of this world," says Hamlet to himself...
Though you may think that going to chem lecture is a waste because if you sit in the back, the professor looks as small as the carbon dioxide molecule he is talking about, the jokes are as stale as a Store-24 ham sandwich and the verbatim transcript of the lecture is in your chemistry book (pp. 325-346), lecture is an invaluable way to add to your understanding of the material--by trading problem sets with classmates. You can repeat this formula with biology and mathematics...
Swingers: that word is not so much dirty as stale. It evokes the musty air of Rat Pack swagger, when Frank and Dino passed for arbiters of hip machismo. Man, did the chicks dig it! Anyway, that's what the young L.A. layabouts in Swingers pretend to think, playing it oh so cool with the "babies" and thinking they're classy when ordering pricey Scotch--something with "Glen" in its name. They bop to the knowing bounce of Louis Jordan, Bobby Darin, Basie and Bennett and the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy band, and check out Sinatra Night at the Lava...
Still, in the spirit which has come to typify the platforms of political outsiders, Stowe says, "The approaches of the two other parties are stale...
...undertook physical therapy with others in a stale-smelling large room. "It was filled with people dealing with their handicaps," he recalls. "The room of sweat, struggle, hope and disappointment," where patients like himself were exercised on blue mats under glaring fluorescent lights in eggbox cases. They were continually shouted at to "do another, try harder, give it another five...