Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the election already stale news, scores of freshmen Congressmen have only to plan their grand excursion to Washington. But eight men who will stay near home for the next few years are making far more important decisions that will influence U.S. politics for years to come...
...stop all fighting except for token, scattered artillery fire. In the midst of it all, a German general flies over to discuss the crisis with the Allied commanders, to see to it that the war of the generals, the statesmen and the profiteers goes on in spite of the stale mate and war sickness that have driven the common soldiers of all the armies into a sense of universal brotherhood and so to mutiny and ceasefire...
Kent: "Too long, grown stale through repetition; hysterical and suspicious; a lot of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo...
...latest is Stranger Come Home, which comes with the assurance that all its characters are "imaginary." But any moderately attentive reader will begin naming the originals who inspired them almost at once, will feel in the end what is sadly true: that Stranger is a sour mash of stale news stories. The only bit of imagination connected with Author Shirer's book is the startling notion of calling it a novel...
...public-information officers, selected from the army, usually know little about how reporters and newspapers work. Stories submitted to censorship are often lost, interviews are promised, then forgotten. Briefings are curt and colorless. Even so, release times are set for as long as twelve hours after briefings, making news stale by the time it appears. Army photos, the only battle pictures available, must be released first "in Paris, are often delayed for days. Furthermore, there is little coordination between the censors in Hanoi and those in Saigon, relay point for all outgoing messages; what one will pass, another...