Word: well-worn
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...youth, even the trouble some one in his groin, have not curbed his legendary virility, but they have reduced his ranging stride. Fortnight ago, when he met President Roosevelt on a U.S. cruiser in the Suez Canal (TIME, March 5), the King looked longingly at the President's well-worn wheelchair...
...familiar Chopin waltzes, preludes, and nocturnes, together with some of the less well-worn pieces--nearly two dozen works in all--are woven into the story of a man torn between love for a woman and love for country; and all are brilliantly played by Jose Iturhi...
...course the first thing that you will notice in reading this well-worn column is that Willie Cousins is absent. Such are the fortunes of war and the penalties of living off-station. It looks as though I'll have to take the blame all by myself and suffer Unsat's alone. I'm going to miss Bill getting "hot" copy, rewriting and generally helping to make everybody's private life public...
...evacuation procession included petits bourgeois in well-worn but well-tailored suits; artisans and laborers in ragged, patched work clothes; automobiles out of gas, loaded with entire families and drawn by horses; an ice-cream vendor's velocipede, with a baby squalling in the ice-cream compartment; people with dogs, cats, cattle, goats and parrots...
...city's well-worn victory guns boomed, and antiaircraft women on the roofs fired colored rockets. Against the wet sky, still pale with dusk, the fireworks made a poor show. The people wondered why this celebration had started so early. In the first week of the offensive, Citizen Stalin had issued the unprecedented number of three proclamations in one day. Was that number to be surpassed tonight...