Word: timeworn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talk about the perils of "divided government," Gephardt said the recent rash of resignations of timeworn legislators reveals how partisan politics have begun to hinder the effectiveness of the federal government...
...decades of Australian xenophobia linger in Asian memories. On Hong Kong and Malaysian television, Australia is often portrayed as a racist country. Australians, on the other hand, are still prey to what Governor-General Bill Hayden, the Queen's representative in the federal government, recently called "Orientalist fantasies," timeworn images of exotic, erotic and despotic Asians. Even after the cultural and economic transformations of the past decade, Australia differs radically from its neighbors in language, law, religion, concepts of democracy and every tradition...
There is a love story behind this timeworn document--a story of devotion, commitment and family. Drafted by my grandfather nearly seven decades ago, the letter asked his future father-in-law for my grandmother's hand in marriage...
...that cold February night at Briggs Cage, there was no crackly 45 to blare the National Anthem through tinny speakers. There was no sugar-sweet soprano behind whom fans could mumble the timeworn lyrics...
...timeworn book by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse portrayed the well-heeled Long Island crowd in the Gatsby era. James Racheff's adaptation, first seen in a smaller-scale 1989 version at Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House, transposes the locale to Harlem. It brings together a moneyed sophisticate, black in parentage but not in apparent culture, and the down-home, ethnic- talking show girl he has yearned for but lost track of since a chance encounter years earlier. They meet as he is on the verge of marrying the prim, domineering daughter of a minister. Most of the action arises...