Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fascists are out of office but the civilian governments have not yet been set up, and when the high aims for which the war was fought disappear before the realities of incompetence, brutality, red tape, swollen eyes, dead bodies, ruined buildings, ruined lives, cynicism, contempt, and the starved inertia of purposeless living...
...have lived and we are living in a rotten world. . . . Only by handling the old structure roughly, only by conquering our inertia, only by daring to venture on new ways, can we hope to see a better...
Baldwin's serious charge: the Bureau of Ordnance is clogged by inertia and inefficiency, specifically in the development of naval mines and torpedoes; the Navy itself countenances inefficiency in high ranks, has done nothing to rid its command of deadwood. His invidious comparison: the Army...
...Many of these weaknesses have been, or are being, remedied. But American naval mines are still inferior. . . . And there are still inertia and inefficiency in some parts of the Bureau of Ordnance. . . . This is not due to any lack of technical brains; some of the best service and civilian minds in the nation have been available . . . some of them . . . have resigned in disgust. Red tape, slow-moving controlling mentalities, and the lack of a sense of urgency on the part of some of the Bureau's officers are responsible...
...full qualities of nature are only revealed in effort," Perry declared. "When seeking to obtain some goal despite obstacles and inertia, with confidence in success but with a chance of failure, that is the situation when one feels his best, and this is human life at its best...