Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, unhurried lunch, Fermi reassembled his crew. The control rods were drawn out. The instruments clamored louder; the curve of the reaction climbed toward the critical level. At 3:25 p.m. the pile "went critical," i.e., a self-sustained chain reaction started. Its mass was still silent and motionless, but the physicists knew that a new kind of fire was burning inside...
...strange nature of this year's recession-with some industries still setting new records while others are in trouble-is the best evidence that the economy is neither "stable" nor "stagnant," in the sense of being motionless. With such new industries as air conditioning and color television still in their infancy, and with new consumers being born at the rate of 10,700 a day, most economists believe that it would be difficult indeed for the U.S. economy to become stagnant. What has actually happened, in the view of Harvard's Economist Sumner Slichter and others, is that...
Most of the objects on the plates are stars that belong to the Milky Way galaxy, but beyond them are external galaxies which are so far away that they may be considered motionless. As the Milky Way galaxy revolves majestically, its stars seem to stream past the background of distant galaxies. The stars themselves seem to move at varying speeds because of their varying distances and their own individual motions within the galaxy...
...stucco and chicken-wire cliffs of Hollywood success are alluring from afar, but the pilgrims who cling to the steeps find them treacherous, lonely and slippery as glass. A fearful few on the higher ledges kick savagely at those who struggle near; the weary majority simply hang on, motionless as skewered lepidoptera. Climbers tumble off daily into a shadowed limbo below, to live out grey lives without Cadillacs, swimming pools or cell space in the brain of Louella O. Parsons. But television's Jack Randolph Webb, 33. has never faltered or looked down; he has gone...
...short jacket, his arms raised in the gypsy dancer's graceful but virile pose. For seven minutes, accompanied only by the rhythmic snapping of his fingernails, he stamped and whirled through the old dances, ending with the crescendo stamping of the flamenco Zapateado. At the finish. Escudero stood motionless, his face whitened and pinched by the effort, as spectators jumped to their feet, applauding wildly. From the gallery, a voice hoarse with emotion shouted: "Vicente, esto es!" (Vicente, that...