Word: lifelessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were no cyclotrons, of course, when the earth was young and lifeless, but the ocean water probably contained carbon dioxide and a variety of other inorganic chemicals. High-energy radiation from cosmic rays and other sources might have impregnated this virgin solution as it does today. It seems quite possible that it created formaldehyde. Then, in a billion years or so, this simple stuff may have turned into sugars, proteins, and at last into living particles...
Sandrino has one eye on revenge and the other on the girl across the street when Virginia suddenly announces that she is pregnant. In a grisly finale, Sandrino impales her head on a pike fence till it becomes a slippery, lifeless pulp...
...parades and cheers are not the basis thing. And unless he finds in his sacrifice a genuine glimpse of the true value of his loyalty, an idea of the work that is being done, of the changing standards, of the growing spirit, his totem becomes but a dry and lifeless symbol, the very negation of that driving force which makes totems the foundations of the social world...
...latest issue, the editors of the Lampoon have descended to a new low in their seventy-five years of unmitigated dullness. Even the Life-Saver joke, usually the high point of each issue, if lifeless, trite, and unfunny. The Shaefer ad is unreadable, while the Coop ad, which is generally the only reason for buying the magazine in the first place, is totally tasteless and unprovocative...
...riposte. The stiff, three-cornered blade plunged into the Finn's chest. "There is no danger," insisted Vartia as the blade was eased out of the wound, its protective tip still in place. A moment later, with blood staining his white fencer's jacket, Captain Vartia slipped lifeless to the floor...