Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welter of confusion, inertia, committee meetings and high-minded oratory, three propositions last week seemed to be taking shape...
Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey came onstage last to charm the delegates out of their chairs with a whiplash, give-'em-hell attack on the Eisenhower Administration's "inertia and catering to specially privileged Republicans." His speech drew 40 rounds of applause, and as it ended, 3,000 delegates roared and stomped their approval for twelve minutes. Clearly, Humphrey, the candidate who had been all but counted out by some of his fellow hopefuls, was way ahead with the U.A.W...
...attend, and a third of the year will still be wasted. A few students who want extra learning will not make up for the majority who are content to stay with the old schedule. Only a radical approach like the four-quarter program seems likely to break through the inertia and provide the efficiency, economy, and opportunity which the more conventional proposals seek to duplicate...
Surely this move is but the first in a series of steps, all facets of a well designed plan directed toward complete fusion in the very near future. A tradition of inertia has been overcome...
Gertrude never got her medical degree. Once having admitted boredom, she stopped studying. After final examinations, her professor suggested summer school. Replied Miss Stein, "I have so much inertia and so little initiative that very possibly if you had not kept me from taking my degree, I would have, well, not taken to the practice of medicine, but at any rate to pathological psychology and you don't know how little I like pathological psychology and how all medicine bores...