Word: dormantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white elephants go, it is like Xanadu revisited. Mar-a-Lago, the former Marjorie Merriweather Post mansion in Palm Beach, lies dormant, its 115 rooms shuttered, its fountains dry, its citrus grove, four greenhouses and nine-hole golf course seedy and overgrown. When the cereal heiress died in 1973, she willed the 17-acre oceanfront estate-built in 1927 at a cost of $8 million-to the U.S. Government as a retreat for Presidents and foreign dignitaries. Alas, her posthumous hospitality had virtually no takers. Congress was reluctant to maintain Mar-a-Lago (Spanish for Sea-to-Lake) and equally...
...peacetime draft." But from the start, his plan was complicated by the question of whether women should be included. Carter thought yes, and proposed registration for both sexes. But Congress said no, and last June enacted a males-only law. By then the 1971 suit, which had lain dormant for years after the 1973 ending of the draft, had been revived with a new group of plaintiffs...
...provides $13.3 million to be used by the Selective Service, which still exists as an agency though it has been dormant since 1975, to carry out only the registration. If Carter or any successor wanted actually to draft anyone from the pool of young men to be registered, he would have to persuade Congress to pass a new law giving Selective Service that power. Selective Service officials expect to take five weeks to get the registration procedure worked out. It will thus probably begin in late July...
Intellectuals are converting, and long dormant theological debates are reviving on such matters as whether to replace Old Church Slavonic with modern Russian in the liturgy. According to Anatoli Levitin-Krasnov, a Soviet exile who writes on religious affairs, the new vigor in the Orthodox Church is due to "widespread disillusionment with Marxism" among the young. Others believe that the rediscovery of Orthodoxy, complete with icons and ancient liturgical music, like a revival of interest in the nation's pre-revolutionary religious philosophers, is part of a new concern for Russia's historical culture. The best-known proponent...
...Mount Pelee, a long-dormant volcano on the island of Martinique, exploded, sending a huge cloud of dust, steam and gas, believed to be as hot as 1,800° F over the town of Saint-Pierre. Within minutes the town was a smoldering ruin, and 29,933 inhabitants were dead. Only four residents are known to have survived, including a convicted murderer who was imprisoned in a dungeon cell...