Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maddening Inertia...
...America," Kohn said, "is on a hectic quest for new values." We are learning anew the worth of democracy and have fortunately been awakened to the gravity of our situation. "Inertia is the enemy of men," he said, "and the road to hell is paved with good intentions. A demand for a second front proves that our people have been awakened...
Blame for the inertia and dawdling which has kept the proposed Inter-House Committee from developing more rapidly can be laid directly at the doors of the Housemasters, House Committees, and the Freshman Committee of the Student Council. Too hazy on its goals, the Freshman committee has sacrificed direct methods to complicated committee work; and too short-sighted to ignore House loyalties, the House dignitaries have preferred isolationism to cooperation. The original proposals for inter-House integration if carried out efficiently could have helped Freshmen to make friends among their own class and would have halted the rapidly growing segregation...
...well with less help when it has to. Despite a reputation for operating with the inhuman efficiency of a packaging machine, all business has its soft spots-some in the head, some in the heart. Management in the end comes down to a manager with the usual human inertia and reluctance to fire anyone if he can help it. Under war pressure more workers can be released for more direct connection with the war effort. And if Washington would relieve business of such old-man-of-the-sea union practices as the famous "feather bedding" on the railroads, business would...
Much better liked than Lolly Parsons, when she started Hedda had to pit friendships and wits against the powerful inertia of Lolly's 20-year reign on Hollywood's gossip roost. Choice studio stories went first, automatically, to Lolly; actors phoned her first and eloped afterwards lest she sideswipe them ever after. In addition to her column, Hedda's schedule now includes three CBS broadcasts weekly for Sunkist Oranges over 42 stations (none in Los Angeles, which eats second-grade oranges), occasional magazine pieces, six movie shorts a year, some bit parts (latest: Reap the Wild Wind...