Word: staled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Home Front, a four-column, brightly written condensation of Cleveland news about such everyday things as traffic accidents, deaths, fires, crimes, oddities, politics, sports. Readers were expected to clip the section, mail it to kinsfolk in the service. But ordinary mail took so long that the news was stale when it arrived...
...mission no longer seemed stale. Pursuits were in sight early-too early. But nothing happened. Bombardier Miller never raised his head from Singing Guns...
Wives and mothers may rejoice at the poll popularity of homemade cookies and other eats, but the unfeeling Navy Department puts in: "Stale or mashed cakes, cookies reduced to crumbs and spoiled fruit do not make for a Merry Christmas for boys overseas." Instead, Mother should send a sewing kit (in Army & Navy sonny wants it). The Navy likes overnight bags...
Then the Navy Department put out what looked like big, spot news: an anonymous naval officer had taken full command of all units in the Aleutians. But next day a Navy spokesman at Seattle said this was stale stuff, that a Naval officer had been in command since before the Japanese struck...
There he sat at table with a broken-down laboratory assistant, a lavender college student, a mousy-genteel kleptomaniac widow, a moth-eaten elocutionist, a stale bibliophile who dismissed all ideas with "forgive my sense of humor"—a gallery which should convince almost everybody that Wells, like Dickens, is no caricaturist of English life but a dispenser of literal and horrifying truth. And there Teddy ran foul of two "overripe virgins," bleached Miss Blame and malapropist Miss Birkenhead, who once spent six months in Paris, calls her Paris sugar daddy her faux...