Word: timeworn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...composed entirely of vaudeville krauts and British louts whose follies have been chronicled in a thousand previous service comedies. In a conclusion telegraphed from the beginning, Bates, who has miraculously saved the town from destruction, sheds his army uniform, and appears naked at the gate of the asylum. The timeworn moral: the inanities of lunatics are preferable to the insanities of armies...
Students who cheat at Harvard eschew the timeworn eliches. The very rich and/or very desperate have even been known to hire substitutes...
Often the starting point for hope is a timeworn epigram that is chalked on a slate, such as Socrates' "All I know is that I know nothing," or Emerson's "Discontent is the want of self-reliance." From there the prisoners take it on their own, analyzing themselves and one another. But the strongest prompting toward cure is the living example of the ex-junkies themselves...
...timeworn style, Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung's lieutenants blame drought, hailstorms and insect blights for cutting the ration from a manageable 20.65 ft. in 1957 to its present handkerchief size. But Red China's frayed look also owes much to a deliberate decision by its leaders. "When the bad crops began in 1959," explains one Western expert in Hong Kong, "cotton and cloth was one place where you could squeeze the people." Peking squeezed hard, cutting back cotton acreage at least 20% so that every spare clod of earth could be sown to grains. The result...
Last week Lloyd presented the government's measures. They fell with a distinctly timeworn, hollow plop. Among them...