Word: staling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's the most zip we've had all night," an elated Coach Ronn Tomassoni said after the game. "That's the most zip since Yale. You could see it in practice this week. We'd been getting a bit stale...
...fact, the authors use a repertoire of hackneyed Bush jokes that seem stale four months after the campaign. (Political Subtext...
...upper hand in the new information age. He also tried some restorative time off. In June he set out on a cross-country drive, renting a Chrysler convertible in Miami and wending his way along the Gulf Coast through towns like Pensacola and Biloxi. But the summer heat and stale motel air left him dehydrated, and by the time he reached Little Rock, he was running a 100 degrees fever...
When M. Butterfly was reviewed in The New Republic, Robert Brustein had said that there was too much plot, much going on, but that he still preferred an overspiced dish to stale white bread--do you think you tend to too much plot, too much story in this new play...
...staged a grueling series of hearings on public education in all 75 Arkansas counties. She spent long evenings drinking stale coffee in overheated cafeterias while participants trooped to the microphone to offer their views and occasional insults (she was once called "lower than a snake's belly"). Known to click a ball-point pen if someone was belaboring the obvious, she sometimes resorted to setting a timer at five minutes to keep the meetings moving. As the deadline approached, Mrs. Clinton drove the meetings from 6 p.m. Friday until late Sunday afternoon. When she presented the findings to a special...