Word: outdatedness
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Oversized racket sales -- with prices ranging from $100-300 -- grew by 60 per cent last year. The racquets have put the snowshoe on the other foot, prompting Prince users to jeer outdated traditionalist and mock the mini-racquet antiques. What's that for. . . Stir your martinis? Swat mosquitos? Nail down...
Around college basketball, "scandal" is a word from 1951 or 1961, outdated now. Sportswriter Arthur Daley, writing of the '51 fix charges involving 33 players at seven schools, observed: "All scandals are ugly, and this is a particularly vicious one because it touches the presumably untouched." Can there be...
Some union leaders are starting to rethink their old and often outdated shibboleths. Productivity used to be just a word that meant harder work for the same pay.
Charging that capital punishment does not deter criminals and that the "eye-for-an-eye" theory of justice is outdated, Hugo A. Bedau, Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, said last night that "there are no crimes that are suitably punished with the death penalty."
The film's equally unconvincing technical composition inspires tender sympathy for its well-meaning unprofessionalism. In order to emphasize the mental concentration and the spiritual intensity of racing, Hudson treats nearly all the running sequences--training sessions, sprinting for fun, competitions--with the old foggy slow-motion treatment, and the...