Word: staling
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...turned out, Khrushchev's information was slightly stale. After a month of fruitless haggling, the Russians had indeed been on the verge of calling the whole deal off early last week. Their main complaint was a provision that the wheat must move in U.S. ships, whose rates were as much as $10 a ton higher than foreign rates...
Even worse than the stale underworld gossip being mouthed by Valachi was the fact that he got mixed up on names and places...
...down in Australia, the world's reigning tennis champions are preparing an ambush for the invading Americans. Roy Emerson, no long stale, and Ken Fletcher, no longer inexperienced, are backed up by Fred Stolle, whose flame-thrower serve took him to the Wimbledon final against McKinley In addition, there is talk of reactivating Neale Fraser, whose canny court sense helped Australia hold the Davis Cup for five years Fraser is still only 29, and he held every major tennis title at some time before retiring early last year...
There are two versions of the same story about artistic talent going stale in youthful marriage, several reworkings of the theme that radio and telephone systems are the apparatus of loneliness. More childhood memoirs than one would wish end with rhetorical queries to the Infinite. The collection's showpiece is a long fable called Snowman, Snowman. It concerns a snowman who thinks long, long thoughts while slowly melting in the front yard of a middle-class New Zealand family. These scraps suggest not a dark night of the soul but a sun-filled afternoon, with curtains blowing drowsily...
...birds, especially the ducks. There were dozens of ducks living along the boat lake. Most of them had been abandoned by people whose children had received ducklings as Easter gifts. Lopez became fond of the creatures, and he took to buying 100 pounds of stale bread a week to feed them...