Word: timeworn
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After months of debate over foreign aid, Washington seemed tired of it all. In the mouths of Administration leaders the timeworn arguments for the program -e.g., military aid is "vital" to the defense of the free world-had become cliches, wrung dry of meaning from reiterated challenge, reiterated response. Last week some of the deep meaning of this high-minded, unprecedented, costly U.S. experiment came to life in terms of people, fears, hopes and dramatic ambitions. It was brought to life by a short, black-haired man in a double-breasted suit who landed at the Washington airport...
...same time making a lot of good hard cash to the evocative vocabulary of traffic, tax, protection, quota, levy, duties, or subsidies while compiling a third and wholly different literary style (pious, holy, prudent, sterling, gorsoons, lassies, maidens, sacred, traditional, forefathers, mothers, grandmothers, ancestors, deeprooted, olden, venerable, traditions, Gaelic, timeworn, and immemmorial) to dodge the more awkward social, moral and political problems that any country might, with considerable courage, hope to solve in a century of ruthless political thinking. The ambivalence, once perceived, demanded a totally new approach (as opposed to the previous romanticism...
Assistant Managing Editor William J. White of the New York Daily News agreed with Knight that quality could be improved if "editors [would] show their displeasure over these timeworn cans of corn and insist that the fotogs get something new." But, he argued, if wire-service editors were to stop sending" every picture of Secretary Dulles leaving by plane for God knows where," editors would be the first to object...
...ills that plague France at the present time as reflected by French youth and interpreted through American eyes. Even after years of close and happy association with my French friends, I still never fail to be appalled by the very typically Gallic shrug of the shoulders accompanied by the timeworn and threadbare excuses which reach back to the War of 1870 and the Prussian occupation of Paris...
...Third Force. Last week the New Statesman outdid itself with an article by a timeworn Socialist, G. D. H. Cole, who keeps saying he is not a Communist fellow traveler. Cole explained his view of Far Eastern events: "I looked on the war in Korea as essentially a civil and not an international war ... I wanted the North to win. The Government of South Korea appeared to me to be a hopelessly reactionary puppet affair...