Word: motionlessly
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Though there is less hazing than at West Point, first-year men must swab the barracks, serve in the mess hall, stand motionless whenever a North Star (four-year man) passes by. Demerits come for everything from dozing in class to "questioning an officer"-a rule designed to keep cadets from humiliating inexperienced instructors with tricky questions...
...massive, carved, 14-foot-long wooden trencher held 120 gallons of fish stew. The host would often perform a ceremony roughly equivalent to lighting a cigar with a $100 bill: he ladled out the savory fish oil onto the fire. The stoic guests proved themselves unimpressed by sitting motionless even when the flames blistered their legs and set fire to their bearskin robes...
...President flew in to Washington, he was greeted by a throng that included Vice President and Mrs. Nixon, Senator Knowland, other members of Congress and the diplomatic corps. As he stepped out of the Columbine III, the band struck up the Star-Spangled Banner, and the President stood motionless, his hat over his heart, as the rain of a summer shower spattered down on him.* Then, before a rosette of microphones, the President ignored the raindrops streaming down his face and soaking his summer suit. "After the hard week I have been through," he said, "it is very heart warming...
...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...