Word: staled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduates have a chance to know Purcell unless they major in Physics. Purcell admits his main interests lie in research and if he had to choose he'd far rather be in his experimental laboratory than teaching Physics 11a--"frankly I think I'm a bit stale there." In Lyman he is sheltered from much of the college life. When non-science students do see him, moreover, they are apt to mistake him for a graduate student--though he is all of 40. The Davidson game was the first football match he's attended in 12 years. "But I love...
...American people," he said. "Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions ... The people are wise-wiser than the Republicans think." The speech made listening newspapermen, jaded with the stale insincerities of convention orators, look at each other: here was something different. What kind of campaign would a man like that make...
...Teachers Union promptly denounced ex-Communist Dodd's testimony as a rehash of "all the stale old slanders and lies that she herself exposed and refuted in the days when she had a respect for facts." But the subcommittee issued subpoenas for ten suspected teachers. Only seven could be found at the moment, and each of them appeared carrying a bag full of evasions. One social-studies teacher belligerently challenged Senator Ferguson to make a tour of the schools and see for himself how teachers have been "frightened" by the many investigations into Communism among New York teachers. When...
Steelman's figures were not only stale, but misleading. As Fowler himself reported last week, out of $128 billion appropriated by Congress for military goods in Korea, only $34 billion had been delivered by June 30, two years later. A better cause for cautious optimism was that Mobilizer Fowler himself wants to speed up the stretched-out defense program. His first act as mobilization boss was to send word to the rearmament program's severest critic, Texas' Democratic Senator Lyndon Johnson, that he would do what he could to restore the original goals...
...three days the classified ad ran in Chicago newspapers. It brought in no gallons of stale water. A Decatur cistern was tapped for a 29-year-old sample. The water heater of a high-school teacher in Oak Park yielded 30 gallons between five and twelve years old. An undertaker emptied his fire extinguisher and a grocer drained the soda pop cooler he had not cleaned for five years...