Word: staled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seconds. First, Bond and Tuckfield checked the lights, emergency gear-and each other. Then Tuckfield opened a seacock, and the forward escape hatch began to fill with water. The men stayed at normal atmospheric pressure because excess air and their stale breath escaped through a vent line into the torpedo room. As the 68° water rose to their chins, Bond and Tuckfield shivered. With half a minute to go, the doctor gave the order and the chief opened a valve, letting air under 225 Ibs. pressure gush into the hatch. The outlet vent was closed. The air pressure zoomed...
...other schools, summer operation would also present certain peculiar difficulties: requirements for promotion in many public schools, for example, presume that teachers can study during the summer, and gain additional academic credits. And both public and private schools face the risk that working full-time might make a teacher "stale." This danger is especially acute in boarding schools like Exeter, for when the teacher lives in the same building with students and sees them a great deal outside the classroom, teaching becomes a full-time job, instead of an "hours only" occupation. In colleges where the work load...
...Stale Scoop. Quartered in Vientiane's vermin-infested Constellation Hotel, newsmen of necessity pooled their scraps of information. One reporter who did not join the sweaty, sociable circle was Pundit Joe Alsop Jr., who arrived with a copy of Thucydides under one arm, sped off to an air-conditioned room in the residence of U.S. Ambassador Horace H. Smith. Columnist Alsop stealthily cabled what he thought was a scoop on the Laotian appeal to the United Nations. Trouble was that the reporter pool at the Constellation had filed the same story the day before...
...missed recapture when he joined in an astonishing attempt at a mass breakout to British lines by 110 men, which German patrols mopped up. Two more attempts failed; he had one desperate but exhilarating moment when he wheeled his bicycle through a crowd of German troops that had "the stale, panicky smell of troops on the run." Finally, he made it by canoe through the labyrinthine Biesbosch marshes and back to what he calls "this most personal...
...Quetta (pop. 84.000 humans, 20,000 camels), a thriving West Pakistan trade center 536 rugged miles north of Karachi, the crimson pomegranates-cbme big as softballs, and the government train arrives sporadically in a hiss of steam with stale copies of daily newspapers from Karachi and Lahore. These imports enjoy only a languid sale in the bazaar, for Quettans, with a literacy rate of 10.3%, are not the reading sort. Several misguided publishers have tried to give Quetta a daily newspaper of its own; the most successful of these lasted only 18 issues. Quettans get along with a bizarre medley...