Word: staling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, MacAusland sounds optimistic. "We're fresh and hungry," she says. "Hopefully, UConn is stale already...
...very bad for people," she tells Hugo, a platonic male friend, and adds: "I must have been mad to try to pretend that the sexes were much the same." Kate begins to subject her life and career to severe scrutiny, with downbeat results: "She found herself trapped in stale repetition, and depressed by the fact that as everyone else got more interested in Women she became less and less so. The feeling of deep boredom which overcame her when she opened a woman's novel frightened...
...cerebral ex-newspaperman from San Francisco, tried to retrain Harper's eye on important public issues, setting the tone with a crotchety column of his own. The magazine was proudly provocative, billing itself "the battlefield of the mind." Some readers found it overly contentious and occasionally stale. The cover story for the August-and final-issue, for example, is on television evangelism, a worthy topic but one long since worked over by other magazines. Still, Harper's is a voice that will be missed. As Lapham says, "Its closing chips a little away from one's freedom...
...does not gloss over his failures, conceding that Newsweek was slow to produce Watergate breakthroughs and that the wizard himself was growing stale and restless in his last years on the job. Apparently he had not completely recovered when he wrote his book. He does narrate many amusing anecdotes. In one, a Nixon aide phones Elliott at home soon after the Watergate break-in on an issue of considerable urgency: changing Julie's magazine subscription. In this work, at least, Elliott chooses not to say much about the nature of his craft, his era or his inner workings. Mostly...
...strict neutrality" toward the Afghan insurgency, overland resupply across the border has become increasingly unsuccessfuland expensive, since the required bribes at border posts have risen accordingly. As a result, mujahidin in the hills have no meat, rice or corn. Above the Pich valley, they eat only stale millet bread and sairai leaves, which resemble holly in texture as well as appearance. "Because of Kunar's terrain I don't think we can be eliminated with guns," concludes Wahid, a 24-year-old former Kabul University chemistry student who serves as liaison between Jamiat units in Kunar...