Word: inertia
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...have absolutely no relationship to the setting, a hodgepodge of ugliness ... Or some suburban developer comes along, cutting down the trees, bulldozing the site and befouling our habitat." A purist with a sad, cold eye, Gropius believes that the main reason for the architectural ugliness he finds everywhere is "inertia of the heart. Man still clings to some visible reminder of Grandpa...
...punch. While his western-front offensive suddenly tapered off, a new drive involving three allied divisions (one U.S., two South Korean) was launched at Kumsong, the Reds' main supply and assembly base on the central front. ¶The Reds proved that they had not been bludgeoned into inertia. In the west, they hit the 1st Cavalry Division with 5,300 artillery and mortar shells in two days, and with 300 rockets in one hour (World War II Katushas, fired from multiple launchers mounted on trucks). In the same sector, a weakened battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment* was attacked...
...under way. Since May 25, in what he called "the dimout war," the enemy had lost 188,000 men, he said. The summer battles had served to weaken the enemy, to improve the U.N.'s military posture, to school and season replacements, and above all, to ward off inertia...
Last spring's Council Report on Undergraduate Advising stated that "inertia in many freshmen and inaccessibility of some assigned faculty advisors makes it necessary, we believe, that a freshmen has someone else to whom he can turn for advice or for talk-someone experienced in college life. This need may be particularly acute in the first weeks it the freshman year...
...Science graduate schools, as the president of Harvard has indicated, do not receive their fair share of the best brains and well-developed, forceful personalities'. Law and medical schools have done much better. It is easier to become a professor, and it is easier to continue out of inertia. Professions such as law and medicine offer few financial aids by way of fellowships, while that of teaching the higher learning offers many...