Word: inertia
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...said, 'That's beautiful,' and the other said, 'I don't see it.'...We think him blind, whereas he thinks us credulous... and what we call doing justice to the facts he calls the grip on us of settled routines or inertia...
...truthful, and do as you did in 1938 when you named Hitler Man of the Year. Name World Enemy No. 1, Joe Stalin, Man of this Year. By doing so you may help shock the rank & file out of their inertia and into the realization of the serious situation confronting...
...years ago, Chancellor Robert > Hutchins of the University of Chicago foresaw all this when he wrote: "Each endowed university still acts as though it were alone in the world, required to give every course and investigate every segment of every field. The reason for this is partly inertia . . . and partly vanity. One university cannot hold up its head if the university next door has a school of animal husbandry and it has none . . . Although this kind of comparison is doubtless better for the universities than appraising them in terms of their football scores, its educational consequence is mediocrity...
Part of the weight was "low-order" (chemical) explosive to detonate the bomb by driving together its subcritical masses of uranium. Another part was the "tamper"-a casing of metal whose inertia kept the exploding bomb from expanding too rapidly, i.e., before the nuclear explosive had time to react...
Since The Struggle for the World, the West has reluctantly climbed from the misty valley of ineffectual good will to the bleak but clearer plateau of the cold war. But on the new terrain loom the same old dangers of complacency ("We are winning the cold war"), inertia ("Wait for the dust to settle") and false security ("They'll never match our atomic stockpile"). With a combination of cold logic and hot passion that burns like dry ice, Burnham tries hard to arouse the free world to full realism and resolution. Burnham's argument...