Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...otherworldly air, that drama is utterly human. Silent, motionless, unconscious, and all but invisible under her surgical drapes, the leading actor is the human patient...
...Crouched motionless on a mossy stone, a frog seems to be thinking about nothing, and in a sense this is true: the frog's brain is too small and primitive for real thought. But its bright, bulging eyes have a keen, built-in intelligence of their own. They select among stimuli and report to the feeble brain only those visual items that are important to a frog's wellbeing. When a cloud drifts slowly over the sun, a frog's eyes do not bother the brain with the meaningless event. But when a bird swoops down, suddenly...
Throughout the city, a quiet mania was perceptible. People were smiling. Even people with sophomore essays, theses, and Sanskrit 103 exams impending. People lay motionless on the banks of the Charles, feigning study. People lay motionless in the Yard, feigning study. At Radcliffe, most of the girls were studying, of course, but usually reliable sources told the CRIMSON that several 'Cliffies were seen sitting under trees in the quad, wearing shorts, and feigning study. Elsewhere, people were going for long walks, eating ice cream cones (with jimmies), and playing baseball...
...Scotland's Holy Loch, past the Argyll highlands and into the North Atlantic slipped the nuclear-powered SSB (N) 608-more popularly known as the U.S. submarine Ethan Allen. From the wind-whipped surface it nosed silently into the world beneath, a world where time itself hung motionless. Aboard were 16 Polaris missiles-with a total destructive power greater than all the bombs exploded in World War II. The Ethan Allen, on what its captain called "a full wartime footing," was setting out on its regular 60-day patrol...
...enemy. But as the fourth lift fluttered over the paddies, the Communists let loose with a blaze of bullets from the woods at the edge of the rice field. "The tree line seemed to explode with machine-gun fire," said one helicopter pilot. "It was pure hell." Virtually motionless, the banana-shaped helicopters were helpless targets at point-blank range; five of the hovering choppers were shot down, and nine others were riddled by enemy fire...