Word: inertia
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...bringing her home. She enters a house full of forgotten ambitions and of subsurface unhappiness. Danny's father, Sam, is bored by his wife; the couple barely tolerates self-centered grandmother Eleanor; and all three have lost contact with swingin' teen younger brother George. The house is heavy with inertia; the mother wanted to be an artist, the grandmother a pianist. Sam was once a critic of note, but, like the others, has now given up on himself...
...Garden, the conventional has resilience; the family does not give in. Though Sophia attracts each of them, none will give himself up to her. By the end of the play, the father has returned inertia, the grandmother to self-indulgence, and George to his home. Sophia had warned him "you want speed, not a place to ride to;" he closes the play with a speech about motorcycles that ends "The speed! The beautiful speed...
...only by representing the foreign ideas in Chinese characters, yet the Chinese characters have their own meaning already. Our current research finds that foreign ideas have come into Chinese most easily when the Chinese have already had the same general idea. The writing system makes for continuity and inertia in Chinese ways. Unlike Japan, Korea, or Vietnam, who all had a phonetic writing system combined with Chinese characters, the Chinese cannot take in foreign words purely by transcribing their sound even today...
...students answered my questions. It reflected a tendency among most of them to think and talk a great deal about taking drugs, and unconsciously construct arguments to defend their habit against the legal and social bans imposed by society. Obtaining drugs is a positive act which goes against the inertia of legal constraints--to ignore the restrictions requires some internal debate. Having decided that drugs were worth it, the students interviewed took particular pains to describe drug-induced sensations which defy verbal cliches. To the majority, pot manifests itself through dizzy spells and then painful awakenings; it made...
...poles melts, releasing water into the world's oceans. The mass of ice near the earth's axis of rotation is reduced, and the amount of water in the oceans (which are farther from the axis) is increased. As a result, the earth's moment of inertia becomes greater and-like a twirling ice skater who moves his arms out from his body -its speed of rotation decreases...