Word: staled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bombard students with advertisements of improvements and extras, attempting to overshadow the more unsavory truth that they have been increasingly burdened with budgetary constraints. While we’re generally in favor of spicing up menus with seasonal snacks, the over-promotion of seasonal menus and themes seems stale in the face of continued cutbacks. After the barrage of HUDS’ public relations binge, it seems natural that many busy students might have been able to temper survey scores...
...sick of talking to people when I have no desire to listen to them speak. The standard script of “My name is X,” “My name is Y,” “Nice to meet you” gets stale, especially during these first weeks of the semester. As a second semester senior, I’ve feigned enough smiles to decorate a dentist’s office and—just like all of you—I’ve said “nice to meet you?...
When Sarah M. Poage ’05 went to pick up her package, she found that what had once been a gift from a loved one was now the victim of package depot pandemonium. “I just about started to cry, holding my dead flowers and stale cookies, and told [the distributor] that I was just so disappointed that the kind things others had tried to do for me had gone to waste,” Poage said...
Smoothie Nights and Red Sox celebrations could replace stale bagels and picked- over cakes at some Brain Breaks this year, thanks to a shift in budgeting...
...went to New York for the Republican National Convention. I went as a concerned citizen to protest the policies of a political party whose divisive and reckless platform troubles me deeply. And although it was invigorating to participate directly in a democratic process which has become so stilted and stale, I came away from New York with a restless unease about the ability of individuals to effect change in this...