Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most part, a shuttlecock to be hit back and fourth between radical activists, liberal faculty, and conservative faculty and administrators. "Moderates" flocked to the stadium meetings, stenciled strike fists on their tee shirts, and finally brought the strike to an end by returning to their prior state of political inertia and exhaustion...
...grown accustomed to at Gettysburg and had expected to develop at Harvard. He weighed 160 pounds and was a superb runner, while completing less than 40 per cent of his passes. The offense sort of developed around his style of play, and then it was mostly a question of inertia. And the defense had become superb; it was a Yovicsin trademark which has remained strong ever since...
Nixon. who must dream at night of being out of the war. is a weak man who is afraid of appearing so. Even a strong man like Johnson, with keen political instincts. was overwhelmed by the inertia of the office he held. Who could feel motivated to initiate change with only David and Julie to talk...
Wheelis interrupts his story a number of times with general discussions of personal inertia, freedom and will. Because these talks are jargon-free and meditative in tone, they do not distract from the fictional narrative. If anything, they heighten the reader's involvement in a story written with exceptional economy and tact...
...forces of Nicholas II. The Soviet army of today is still isolated, though not much more so than armies of other major powers. Perhaps the greatest difference is that it enjoys far higher prestige and power within its country than its Western counterparts do in theirs. Though bureaucracy and inertia beset much of Soviet society, the highly trained military is less inefficient than many other sectors of Soviet life...