Word: inertia
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...apathetic--be athletic!" comes the plaintive cry from the Radcliffe Athletic Association in a desperate attempt to combat the inertia of the average 'Cliffedweller...
...clubhouses cannot be built in a day. And it takes a long time to break some customs. Yet encouraging signs of change--admission of Negroes to the Washington Club, and recent relaxing of restrictions at the Boston Club--should point out to clubs which retain restrictions that the present inertia can be broken. Working with the proposed Alumni Affairs Committee the metropolitan clubs should begin the slow process of fitting their policies into national practice and their own original purposes. Only then can they justifiably call themselves "Harvard" Clubs...
...bellowed for an all-out attack on Germany, even though Britain could barely defend itself at the time. He complained that the British army was weak because it was ruled by the "military aristocracy of the Guards, second-class snobocracy in the center, and behind it all the cloying inertia of the civil service." In the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor pointed out that the legendary Cassandra had come to "a sticky end." To avoid such an end (i.e., suppression), Connor enlisted as a private in the tank corps, worked on a British army newspaper, and rose...
Premier Shigeru Yoshida's government, of course, would like to have a large loan to tide it over, but Washington feels that pouring in money will induce another period of Japanese inertia. Washington favors more belt-tightening, more austerity, and possibly devaluation. Japanese businessmen are screaming that the amount of austerity already decreed and enforced by Yoshida is producing deflation and unemployment...
...woods. Now that Mendès has ticked off half of his allotted time, other Frenchmen, sympathetic to his aims but doubtful of his chances, are asking questions. Is Mendès an innocent in all but economic matters, surrounded by inexperienced intellectuals united only by their dislike of inertia? Or is he a self-disciplined realist who expresses a French mood of grim resolution? Or is he Kerensky, the last man before surrender...