Word: staling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent crackdown has succeeded in "squashing" underage drinking at campus parties and has made the Yale lifestyle "stale," said Mark Watts, chairman of a student committee that plans campus social events...
...news columns. Rose's warm moment was a distraction and counterbalance to the drug scandal, though redemption goes too far. During the Pittsburgh trial, Rose's name was tossed around loosely when one of those informed reformers, certainly not reformed informers, ran out of fresh cocaine and started throwing stale amphetamines. Except to say that he didn't think much of the proceedings, Rose resisted efforts to stretch a single into a symbol...
...Yugoslavia. There were big planes folded from 3-ft. sheets of heavy poster paper and little ones from bits of waxy British toilet tissue. One anxious aeronautics engineer flew in from Kansas to hand-deliver his delicate creations, while another tucked his into a cereal box insulated by stale flakes of Corn Total. A third, with touching trust in the U.S. Postal Service, simply scrawled the contest address across the wings of his plane and plastered a stamp onto its nose. They were competing in four events -- distance, time aloft, aerobatics and aesthetic design -- in three divisions, professional, nonprofessional...
Dead Dogs and Stale Suds...
...pursue it--freedom from vulgar and degrading racist values like those implied in Mansfield and Charles Murray's writings, freedom from a century of authoritarian practices, especially in the South, where over 70 percent of Afro-American lived until 1960, freedom from violence (both judicial and vigilante) on a stale experienced by no other American group save the American Indians, and Creedom from neurotic customary prejudices of a sort no White ethnic group endured whether in access to public colleges, to housing markets, to bank credit to licensing and Zoning rights, to job markets...