Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretentiousness by Karig's humor. Marvin Lang has all the characteristics of Babbitt. He is smug, ambitious, self-righteous, calculating. Unlike Babbitt, he has a mean streak, especially in his relations with women. His life is actually harsher than Babbitt's was. But his enjoyment of his stale jokes is genuine; his faith in his secondhand opinions is profound; his comic-strip adventures with girls and jobs are funny...
...month. Some of the new leading men are not so good as the old stand-bys, but they all have the advantage of freshness. Of course hams like Edward G. Robinson and Wallace Beery are still around to remind us of our Saturday matinee days, but they've gone stale. If you can't predict every line in "Barbary Coast Gent" before it's said, at least you can be be sure of its tenor...
...came to the railhead. Thirty miles up ahead were Japs. It was six o'clock by the time we found billets in an old factory dormitory that smelled like an abandoned pigsty-the kind whose odors are latent but deep, and revive each time you kick over a stale pile of dirt. We lay sleepless through the night...
...airmen had already had a hot and glory-filled day while the battleships patiently screened their operations. Spruance sent the battleships in to give them a workout. He did not want his 16-in. gunners to get stale. He has stated: "The object of Navy tactics is to use all of the weapons that you have at your command...
About the only foods that have not been successfully frozen, says Sparkes, are tomatoes, potatoes and onions. He has found that even stale bread, frozen, "miraculously thaws out fresh...