Word: inertia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Encasing the early bombs was a large mass of "tamper," i.e., a heavy metal such as lead or tungsten, whose inertia held the bomb together while the nuclear explosion was getting under way. If the tamper were eliminated, which is possible, the bomb would weigh not much more than an eleven-inch sphere of TNT (about...
Last week the whole painfully reconstructed system of U.S. military alliances, paid for in the main by higher U.S. taxes and devoted in the main to the defense of Europe, was gripped by a disheartening inertia that threatened not to wreck it, but to deflate it. There were sulks and angry words in many of the world's capitals, and, as usual, it is the U.S. that is blamed most of all-the nation that pays the piper but is still unable to call the tune clearly. "The U.S. got us into this," was the refrain that rose...
...Communist truce tactics: "The Communist plan...has called for a temporary show of progress following each period of complete delay. The Communists have known that, at certain times throughout the talks, they must inject a certain modicum of achievement as the price for their main program of bargaining inertia. This is part of the Communist war of nerves. Hope must be raised and dashed .according to schedule" (TIME, Feb. 18). This analysis seemed correct at the time; it still seems so today...
...denied that there is any organized opposition to the bill, attributing its previous failure to "congressional inertia." He said that in the past, Congressmen have been unwilling to support legislation which they were not sure would work...
...must be strict, the comparison ends there, for the College has never found it necessary to impose concentration on the Houses. Old traditions, abetted by inertia, have given each House unique characteristics, based more or less on the type of undergraduate who through the years has gathered there with greatest regularity...