Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both teams are the revival of a long-dormant sport. The Tigers are somewhat worse off, however, because they lack adequate practice facilities; Baker Rink has been used as a temporary gymnasium because of the destruction by fire of the regular gym several years ago, and as a result hockey practice there has been confined to the few days that are cold enough for outdoor practice...
...world politics, which the U.S. would now have to play to the hilt, would not be easy. Peace had merely sharpened the questions which had lain dormant in the smoke of battle. The political problems of the Far East, thrown into focus by internal strife in China (see FOREIGN NEWS), suddenly seemed to rear higher than the old problems of Europe. But Europe's woes were still there, too, stirred by hunger and unrest...
Harvard will be almost exclusively for Freshmen this summer, and that's what makes the abbreviated nine-week term most strikingly abnormal. Except for the SERVICE NEWS and the Summer Chorus, all undergraduate organizations will be dormant, according to present indications. What's more, Radcliffe, Wellesley, and most other institutionalized sources of feminine companionship are out of session; and good little boys keeps away from the banks of the River Charles after curfew...
...Dormant since its opening game last December, the Crimson finally came to life and turned on a hapless M.I.T. five Friday night to hang up its initial triumph of the campaign, 52 to 47. Earlier in the evening, the B team had outfought the Engineers in registering the season's fourth...
...German command had still another worry. Last week it told of a Red Army thrust toward Cracow on the long-dormant southern Poland front that points to the Reich's industries-rich Silesia, feared it might be the start of a winter offensive. As usual, the Russians gave no hints...