Word: glacial
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...Glacial Torpor. Though $750 mil lion sounds like a bundle, it is only a Band-Aid for an industry that often consumes more new capital per year than all stock and bond issues combined...
...philosophy. Because of that fact, Eastern Europe today is caught up in a brutal but visionary economic revolution. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, reforms - in various degrees and diverging directions - are rippling through all East European countries. If the reforms succeed, they will not only break the glacial grip of Stalin ist "command economics" but reshape the societies and political structures of the Continent's entire Communist world...
...part of humanity bathed and the other did not, and these two categories may not sleep in the same bed or eat at the same table." And things got worse, said the poet, when automobiles came along-"those monsters, those separators, little steel cages, the driver sealed in glacial indifference." Alas, the reasonably well-bathed poets listened and then drove off in little steel cages...
Beside themselves with excitement, some 30 top Canadian and U.S. geological scientists rushed to the area to take advantage of what one called "the opportunity of a lifetime" to observe glacial movement. One theory was that Steele's takeoff originated when a section near its base sank a hundred feet, causing the glacier to start "overriding" itself. But the scientists were unanimously chary of conjecture. "We just don't know anything about the action and reactions of glaciers," confessed bearded Professor Samuel Collins of the Rochester Institute of Technology. "That's why we're here...
...third of a mile deep, Tahoe is the third largest alpine lake in the world (after the Peruvian-Bolivian Titicaca and Oregon's Crater Lake). Poured out over California, it would submerge the entire state in 14½ in. of water. Withal, Tahoe is a volcanic and glacial marvel, ringed for one-third of the year by snow-dazzling mountain tops. To Mark Twain, Tahoe was a "noble sheet of blue water." In the past decade, it has faintly but frighteningly threatened to become a vast dead sea of green slime...