Word: staled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attention: "That is a terrible word and yet also a funny word, kind of domestic in a way, it always brings back my aunt saying when I was a kid living with her: Drink it all up now, that broth'll stick to your ribs." She looks at stale sayings with new eyes: "Don't cross your bridges till you come to them is my motto, though how you can cross a bridge before coming to it I've never properly understood...
...bright and cold along the deserted Connecticut beach, but inside a bar on this fall Sunday afternoon, it is dark and warm and crowded with men. The bar is thick with the sound of gruff voices and the smoke of Top Stone cigars and the odors of stale beer and newsprint from the sports sections of the Bridgeport Post-Telegram, the Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant, the New York Times, the New York Post and the New York Daily News, all of which are strewn about the small room. There is a darkened pool table in the corner. A silent...
...cover. Over the past few years, the stripe on the cover had been progressing along the electro-magnetic spectrum, and most industry analysts expected this year's to be a color only dogs could see. Instead, the book's iconoclastic authors have once again shown their disregard for stale traditions and have decorated the book with a crimson banner, as well as a large 350th logo...
...owned by Pierre Cardin. In the New York outpost, the semi-nouvelle French cuisine has been more memorable for its price ($65 for prix-fixe dinner) than for its excellence. The cream of mussel soup known as billi-bi, a Maxim's invention, is decently turned out, but stale-tasting duck pate and the overly complicated, overcooked saddle of lamb with basil cream could not even be considered near misses. The gaudy interior, a bad copy of the Paris setting, includes such embarrassingly corny touches as violinists serenading customers as they climb stairs to the dining room. Nevertheless, Manhattan...
...imagine a life of pure research--that gets pretty stale quickly," Ellison said, adding that he is "very excited about the kind of university life" he will experience next year...