Word: inert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last two are perhaps most important: "The white community is a very tough community, inert and satisfied. It simply won't do for a splinter group [such as the Negro] to be dependent upon a highly organized majority. When Negroes develop an institutional strong point, they have a right to make it their own. Five or six years ago, I saw the need for integration but not for the AAAAS. Now I see the need for both," Monro continues...
...speeches of Richard Nixon. He moves on from Fraser-Blau to the folks at Ritter Pfaud, from the Zayre Corp. to the Udylite people, finally reaching zenith with the "management group of Mr. Grunewald's organization, a firm widely respected for its pioneering work in the development of inert ingredients...
...play of this sort is that it lacks any dramatic excuse for existence as soon as one imagines it being played by two white or two Negro partners. It has no bloodstream of its own but siphons its vitality from the headlines of the hour, just as an inert patient is intravenously fed plasma. Furthermore, the fact that two very special kinds of outcasts discover a common bond of humanity is not particularly convincing proof that the bridge of universal brotherhood is easy to build...
After an astonishingly productive first session in 1965, this year the 89th rested -all but inert-on its laurels. Presented with 25 major bills in early 1966, it had taken final action on just seven as last week began. The crunch was all the crueler because 35 Senators and all 435 Representatives are up for re-election Nov. 8. Some from nearby states shuttled almost daily between home-state campaigning and Capitol Hill; others with particularly tough races had not turned up in Washington for weeks; some lived too far away to do anything but clench their teeth and stay...
...husband at once ran to Valerie's room and switched on the lights. The girl, piteously mutilated, lay blood-soaked and inert. Loraine Percy felt a faint pulse. While she swabbed the blood from Valerie's face with a pillowcase, Chuck Percy telephoned Dr. Robert P. Hohf, a neighbor...