Word: motionlessly
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...almost unnoticed outside its own offices. On Nelson's desk each morning bald Statistician Stacy May began to place a fat progress report: day-by-day, company-by-company deliveries of armaments and armament parts stacked against the quotas. In OPM, a lazy or incompetent chief could sit motionless at his desk for months without having anyone the wiser. Under Nelson's WPB, any failures should show up at once in the morning report on his desk...
...three times as large as the familiar advertising type. They are 250 ft. long, inflated with 416,000 cubic feet of helium, can cruise 1,500 miles at a speed of 55 m.p.h. As a submarine pursuer the blimp has many an advantage over the plane. It can hover motionless over its prey, move along with it constantly whatever its speed, fly below ceiling in all but the foulest weather...
...yourself standing at the corner of a dusty street. . . . The houses are mostly low wooden structures with dirty windowpanes or gaping holes like bleared and sightless eyes. . . . Opposite there is a handsome dwelling, formerly the home of a rich merchant. A broad garden is dotted with dun-colored bundles, motionless. . . . They are children...
...shaking structure fell to pieces, there was a taste of bravery for some of these men. Captain Count Ravel forced enemy units five times superior in numbers to retire two kilometers; Habe's division-the Thirty-fifth-held a deep wedge of the victorious German army of Sedan motionless until the final collapse of France-although it was only half-fed, undefended from the air, tortured with noise and silence...
...clock that morning, R.A.F. reconnaissance found the ship lying motionless off Mandal, the southernmost point of Norway. Shepherded by her destroyers, she soon limped away at greatly reduced speed into the safety of the Skagerrak, probably so strongly protected by German land-based fighters that the British bombers-too far from home to bring a fighter escort-did not dare strike again. However, one pocket battleship would not raid for some time to come...