Word: inertia
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...lacking. The harvest (leading crops : wheat and sugar beets) has suffered from drought and from the thousands of still-buried German land mines. Inflation corrodes all progress and apparently will not be banished until the franc is devalued, a measure from which officialdom shies. But, de spite the vast inertia which grips France's economy and the French public as a whole, some signs of recovery are visible...
...Truman, both of whom are from Missouri, and both now very close to Franklin Roosevelt. Neither had to be shown that Bennett Clark was in deep trouble. Their aid was of no avail. In last week's primary Bennett Clark was snowed under. Reasons: 1) his own soggy inertia-he neglected his mail, several times stood up audiences that had come to hear him; 2) the opposition of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee; 3) the aggressive campaign waged at every creek fork by owl-eyed Roy McKittrick, the state's Attorney General...
Major Louis Rothschild Lefkoff, a mis fit officer, was a reflection on his superiors' inertia: he had moved to new jobs and higher rank through a series of military failures. Finally found ill fitted for active command, Lefkoff was sent to Camp Van Dorn, a dreary clump of tar-paper bar racks and huts some 50 miles south of Natchez as police and prison officer...
...Some hospitals do not use insulin or electric shock therapy because of staff "inertia...
...different. No one on the scene can rival Charley's cloakroom finesse; his likeliest successors are men more apt to give open battle on the floor. Three men are in line. One is Acting Leader Wallace White of Maine, who will get the job if the law of inertia applies. Another is Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, first in line by seniority and prestige, who may refuse it in order to keep his individual freedom. Third choice, favored by the Party's Young Turks, is Ohio's contentious, conscientious Robert A. Taft, the man reputedly with...