Word: dormantly
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...Eximbank does grant credits for the pipeline, an economic tie that has been dormant for almost ten years would be restored. Even more important, the pipeline revenues could encourage Egypt to continue its trend toward less ideological policies. With more funds, it will be able to resist the blandishments of oil-soaked, militantly anti-American Libya, upon which it has been heavily dependent for aid. Indeed, the line might even attract some business from a competitor: the Israelis' Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline. Still, the U.S. and Egypt are playing down the political possibilities. Egypt's government-controlled press...
...turns out to be more interested in Claude's wife. Finally every body goes off on a sort of free-for-all Mediterranean cruise. In the worst tradition of French farce, Claude's wife fakes inconstancy with another man to arouse her husband's dormant jealousies and revive his sense of the bourgeois proprieties...
...Crick and Orgel estimate, man within a few decades will have nuclear rocket engines that would enable him to conduct a little panspermia of his own. Using such rockets, it would be possible to reach planets orbiting around any of thousands of stars with spacecraft carrying microorganisms, such as dormant algae and bacterial spores. Suitably protected and maintained at temperatures close to absolute zero, the organisms could be kept alive for a million years or more...
...Harvard Daily Journal almost succeeded in taking over The Crimson's place in the University by taking advantage of the paper's complacency. But the appearance of the new paper brought out the dormant aggressiveness of Crimson editors, and a full-fledged war with The Journal ensued...
...proposal to run a Radcliffe bus service lay dormant until 1970 when Harvard and Radcliffe began discussing the possibility of a coresidential exchange. Several men said they would not live in the Quad unless a bus ran to the yard, Whitlock said