Word: staling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once the second half began the offense turned stale, allowing UMass to chip away at the Crimson's lead, eventually tying the game, 6-6, with 5:55 left in regulation...
While the other comedians were performing, Gary Lazar stood near the bar barely laughing. I guess even the funniest joke becomes stale after you've heard it ten times in a week. Come to think of it, it's amazing the comedians are able to laugh at their own jokes...
...knife wielding Latin chucklehead Boupacha) turn in some outstanding acting in the Grand Old Style. This is particularly impressive considering that they are spouting dialogue that sounds like it was written by Nietzsche and Bernard Shaw after a tankard of Johnnie Walker, a few lines of coke, and several stale pizzas were consumed between them...
...sober side. No matter how hard the night was, I would always write in the day. I felt Hemingway was right: the true test of a man is to be able to work with a hangover. But I think the drugs were hurting my writing. I was going stale. If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying. The Hand kind of buried me, so my wife Elizabeth and I -- we had got married in 1981 -- decided it would be healthy for both of us to get out of town. So we moved to Paris in December...
...could conceivably lose its daring touch. The pressure will increase as Ford's aerodynamic styling becomes more widely copied and thus less distinctive. Before long, Ford will have to come up with a suitably dramatic successor to the Tempo and Topaz, which have already started to look a bit stale in comparison with their sleeker cousins, the Taurus and Sable...