Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stale language of the cold war, this was the conference that could not succeed; rarely in history had an international meeting been so discounted beforehand. "What is the use of a foreign ministers' meeting?" asked Russia's Mikoyan. "We'll just send Gromyko here, he'll spend a few weeks talking and he'll come back with nothing, so what...
...thirds of the carafes examined were "grossly unhygienic"-meaning that in many there were the partly decomposed bodies of insects, or "islands" of algae and fungi. Often, the walls were slimy. Most had a stale odor, and "a few were literally foul." When the bacteriologists went to work, they found that in 22% of the carafes the water contained colon bacilli, and no fewer than 69% held Staphylococcus aureus-including at least one of the deadly, penicillin-resistant strains that have caused wholesale epidemics and killed babies in some hospital nurseries (TIME, March...
...Born Loser. For Author Tevis a poolroom at 9 a.m. can seem like a "large church." But Eddie only knows the stale cigar and cigarette smoke, the massiveness of mahogany tables squatting impersonally, the lone hustler practicing shots. Hours may pass in a close game when the only life the hustler sees consists of shaded light on the brushed green cloth, the movement of balls elegantly cued, the sensuous dropping of globes into pockets. When it is over, win or lose, he wanders out into the streets that are usually slummy and unfriendly and back to a hotel room whose...
Though Osborne shows clearly perceptible influences, including Williams, Miller, and Shaw, his own originality has kept them in their proper places. (And, though several American dramatists are still his superiors, he has for the moment an advantage over them, in that he has no descendants of his own to stale his freshness.) These are in a sense negative virtues, but the absence in his work of abrupt stone walls of ideological limitation and piercing false notes of literary imitation is refreshing in the theatre of Maxwell Anderson and Ketti Frings...
...STILL Livermore, Calif. ¶Although penguins remain unreconstructed Southerners, there is no reason why they should not be happy in the Arctic; gourmets have not commented on the cooked product, but explorers, suffering strictly from hunger, report that it tastes like something between beef and wild duck cooked with stale fish and served with cod-liver...