Word: staling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happy choice. Few "situations" are more susceptible to the stale striking of familiar and unrevealing ideological attitudes. The contributors, mostly men who have repeated their ideas about the U.N. over and over since its beginning, set them forth here once more, irrepressibly insisting on what everybody knows them to believe...
...table and chair. Primed with coffee and cigarettes, he would type out poems till 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning. When his mother opened his door in the morning, calling out "Rise and shine, rise and shine," as Amanda does in Menagerie, stale smoke billowed out, and she would some times find Tom sprawled across his bed still clothed...
...know what will happen to the man of the future; we are far from certain about what has happened to the man of the past. All we can say is that Robert Ardrey has presented a stale if intriguing view of man. He has given us some notion of how much man may still have in common with the monkey that so disappointed Mark Twain's Heavenly Father
Nehru, who last visited Washington in 1956, complained only a few years ago that he was "flat and stale." But Nehru who will be 72 next week, has lately radiated energy and good health. His ivory-tower idealism has also been pierced by a new sense of realism in world affairs. Russia's violence and Red China's aggressions have left him no illusions about Communism's world ambitions. Thanks largely to able U.S. ambassadors, including Kennedy-appointed John Kenneth (Affluent Society) Galbraith, Nehru has gained new understanding of U.S. aims. Says...
...list of minor inconveniences in packaging is endless: scouring-powder lids that rust, cylindrical salt and oatmeal containers that take up unnecessary room; jars too hard to open; vacuum lids impossible to close...toothpaste caps that get lost; bags of flour that invariably spill; bread that goes stale because of skimpywrapping...