Word: staling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...digitally enhanced photos were tasteless, I though, but I did not let my Luddite I though, but I did not let my misery, I at least wanted a stiff, stale piece of gum as compensation. But the baseball card industry, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that gum stains depreciate the value of cards too much, and would hurt collecting...
...sense of any personality from Florence, no insight into what created this tensed up, time bomb of a woman. Granted, the prissy Florence should be annoying, but not completely unlikeable. Dickey's failure to develop Florence beyond a superficial level leaves the characters with nothing to do but trade stale jokes about their relative cleanliness. In addition, the ululating, screechy voice that Dickey uses for her character is the equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard, or a rusty train whistle...
...sending food to the people of Sarajevo, we are merely fattening up the ducks in shooting gallery. As stale as the bread may be when it gets there, it's not going to stop a 60mm mortar shell...
...inside our four-seater Cessna Skymaster is both hot and stale as pilot Eduardo Domaniewicz patrols the sea off Key West. The aquamarine water of the Straits of Florida, so beautiful at first, becomes monotonous after three hours of scanning. Cuba lies just 38 miles to the south, but the horizon here is flat and featureless. The only sound is the lulling drone of the Cessna's engines. In fact, it is so boring and so suffocating in the cabin that two of our spotters are nodding off. Then, abruptly, the radio comes alive: "Stand by for a surprise!" yells...
STRUCTURAL DESIGN. Structural engineers emphasized two simple guidelines: for houses, flexible wood is better than static brick; and for large buildings, steel is far superior to concrete, which, no matter how much it is reinforced, can crumble like stale cake. "It's quite simple: if you want to be safe in an earthquake, the best thing you can do is build in steel," said engineer Peter Yanev, president of EQE. He pointed to a relatively new concrete parking structure that collapsed at the California State University campus in Northridge and to two adjacent multistory garages in Sherman Oaks...