Word: well-worn
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...afternoon the class labors on written reports, using library books and four sets of well-worn encyclopedias. Sixth-graders are taught how to write compositions with a bibliography; recent subjects include Roman history and Michelangelo. Second-graders learn how to diagram sentences. Collins doles out plenty of encouragement. "You're not slow; you just haven't been taught properly," she tells laggards in her strong voice, often hugging them for good measure...
...first glance, the record jacket gives the impression that its contents are very sophisticated. Randy Newman is peering into the camera, from behind sunglasses, on a bridge over some (presumably) Los Angeles freeway. He looks like an artist, with his hair mussed up and his well-worn clothing. So far, so good. But it's that back of the jacket that's the real killer--it contains the words to all the songs on the record within. The words of one verse...
REVERENTLY I TRUDGED down the well-worn stairs to the basement of the sacred Rat. To Boston rockers, the beer-soaked carpet of the Rathskellar is hallowed ground: it bears the libations of scores touched by a wayward muse. This particular night, the faithful fixtures at the Rat included familiar faces. Musicians, regulars on the local scene, conferred in the dark corner near the mixing board; groupies, punks and curious bedazzled figures crowded the tables. At the bar a gauntlet of black leather elbows lifted steins in homage to the spectacle on stage...
...celebrated Southern Baptist, Billy Graham, leaped to the new President's defense in a Miami Herald interview. As Graham reads his well-worn Bible, there is no doubt that "Jesus drank wine." After all, he miraculously turned six huge jars of water into wine at the wedding at Cana (John 2: 1-11). "That wasn't grape juice, as some of them try to claim," added Graham...
...general consensus among Harvard's Sinologists is that China is moving into a period of continued experimentation. There won't be any new quotations from Mao Tse-tung to tide the country over rough patches, and those now wielding the well-worn aphorisms of the past may imbue them with distorted meanings. The most curious response to Mao's death may come from China's younger generation, which has never known another leader or system or experienced the turmoil and deprivation endured by Chinese in the era of imperialism and during the socialist revolutions--the same generation that, in other...