Word: inert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Acting Secretary-General U Thant declared that his Congo commanders "have been told to be very much on the alert." The U.N. may or may not be able to accomplish it, but sooner or later, the preposterous, protracted Adoula-Tshombe deadlock will have to be broken. The inert Congo giant cannot be allowed to lie there indefinitely...
...notorious element in fallout that masquerades as calcium and lodges in human bones. But it is plentiful in the byproducts of plutonium manufacture, and the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, taking careful precautions, decided to use it. It was converted into strontium titanate, which is chemically inert and virtually insoluble, then formed into eleven pellets and welded into a three-layer jacket. All this had to be done by remote control from behind thick radiation shields-or the operators would not have lived to do more work...
...narrow vote of 62-58, Gizenga's slate of seven candidates swept every office in the Chamber of Representatives; in the Senate, Gizenga supporters won five of the seven elective posts. The Congo's normally inert President Joseph Kasavubu was sufficiently stung by this rebuff to crossly remind the legislators that, as chief of state, it was his responsibility to name a Premier-designate-a strong hint that his first choice would not be Gizenga...
...house has not been stated." Then, in his most famous dictum, he said that a house "is a machine for living in." The statement was not so inhuman as it sounded. Only architecture of "passion," he added, could live and last. "Passion can create drama out of inert stone...
...fluency. One feels that he could write ten sequels to The Tents of Wickedness in a year, and that hardly seems fair. But "Requiem for a Noun" has a lovely beginning: The cold brussels sprout rolled off the page of the book (by Faulkner) I was reading and laying inert and defunctive in my lap. Turning my head with a leisure at least three-fourths impotent rage, I saw him or rather the reverse, the toy the fat insolent flet and then above that the bland face beneath the shock of hair like tangible...