Word: staling
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...goes to jail. She is believable at first because she is so remarkably irritating, later because her repetitious moralizing becomes so remarkably dull. She wears platitudes the way other women wear perfume, and the fact that many of them are fresh, new platitudes does not keep them from becoming stale...
...string. I've been reeling words out of my gut for years, I suppose to find out one day what there is at the middle of me." The friend thoughtfully replies that at the middle, as far as he can see, there is "a little kernel of warm, stale...
...filthy beast is Gary Grant, somewhat whimsically cast as a Pacific island beach bum. World War II has begun, and Grant greets it with the disdain he might ordinarily show for a stale canape. Nevertheless, Australian Navy Commander Trevor Howard tricks him into a position as a plane spotter (code designation: Mother Goose) on a remote islet near New Guinea. Soon he has to rescue Caron and her seven giggling schoolgirl charges, who have fled the French consulate school at Rabaul...
...there is something deeper, something far more important, at stake here. Not merely our press, but our entire logical background has been overwhelmer by liberal ideas, so that even a mind as incisive as Mr. R.'s cannot cope with Miss Peruty's fresh approach to the stale problems with which liberals have so abysmally failed. The whole thing makes me feel sick. Friedman D. Friedman '65 F.T.R. replies: Go soak your head, fella...
...Campus Free Speech Movement, denied Charges of communist infiltration. "No one has ever offered any proof of this," he claimed. "The FSM includes the entire spectrum of the political groups from Goldwater Republicans to young Democrats. Every time there's any significant student protest of any kind, the same stale claim comes up," Rossman said...