Word: stalest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the freshest, as well as some of the stalest, writing in U.S. newspapers appears on the sport pages. The men who write the sport headlines hate to use a quiet word when a violent one will do. One day last week the Denver Post, refusing to admit defeat in its football headlines, found 32 ways of avoiding it: Blast, batters, murder, pastes, whip, crush, wreck, jolt, outscraps, spanks, rolls over, romps over, upsets, rout, toy, dump, bows to, tumbles, drops, trip, tops, sinks, buries, belts, wallops, wins, blanks, licks, trounces, subdues, turns back, edges...
...Cordell Hull, who left the Senate in 1933 to become Secretary of State, was the last elected Tennessee Senator who did not owe his seat to Boss Crump. For one year (1937-38), George Berry, an anti-Crump appointee, served in the Senate, was beaten in the following primary. Stalest Crumpet of all: 77-year-old Kenneth McKellar, a Senator for 31 years...
...than its three nearest competitors (Cairo, Jerusalem, Beirut) combined. It can also be heard more clearly than any but local stations. London made top score for the station which gives "the freshest news, and up to one-third of the listeners said that their own local stations had the stalest news...