Word: staled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideas, have trotted out their favorite twenty-year-old dance beat formula. Amazingly, to some extent, the formula still works; it is hard to avoid dancing to the damned thing, which only proves that a little bit of Chuck Berry goes a long fucking way. Nonetheless, a slightly stale air hangs about it, as about most of the album...
Sissela Bok, handing out slightly stale Tootsie Roll Pops, smiled apologetically and explained that though her husband "tries never to miss a Halloween," he had been tied up at a dinner meeting...
...place by making reservations on Fridays and Saturdays. No French dinner is complete without authentic French bread and our "Baguette", delivered from a local baker, is intentionally crisp (not "dry") just like the Parisian Baguette. Our desserts, except for the ice cream, are expertly prepared fresh several times weekly ("stale"?) on the premises and have become talking pieces to our regular patrons. And for all of this--finest cuisine and true French atmosphere--our complete dinners begin at $5.65 and average $7.00 (not "eight bucks...
...worked briefly as a data processing manager for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, then set up the Dallas computer software firm of Electronic Data Systems with $1,000. By 1970 his assets had soared to as much as $1.5 billion. He promptly took an oceanic bath as the computer market went stale (in a single day the value of his stocks dropped $376 million), next scuttled tens of millions of dollars trying to bail out two sickly Wall Street brokerage houses. Still easily a centimillionaire, this U.S. Naval Academy alumnus has shelled out more millions in behalf of U.S. prisoners...
...prompted this saccharine outburst. After completing a paper, I needed a treat. (That's good psychology.) I attempted to recapture the sweet joys of youth and made a startling revelation. Vending machines, while making a profit for their owners, stock inferior candy--and even what they do have is stale. Candy bars cost a fortune. No longer can one be a gourmand on a nickel delight. Even the 15 cent and 20 cent bars have shrunk. My mouth isn't that much bigger, but the bars are consumable in one bite...