Word: motionlessness
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Bedlam was let loose. Cheers and shouts for Trotzky filled the Opera House. The orchestra tried to compel silence by playing The Internationale, but apparently no one heard it. Throughout the earsplitting demonstration Trotzky sat motionless, his head resting on his hands. Minute followed minute, and still the cheers continued to reverberate from wall to wall until, ten minutes later, Nature conquered the super-vociferous by robbing them of their breath...
Said a spectator: "If Trotzky had risen to speak then, he would have carried the audience, Moscow and all Russia with him. He might have swept the other party leaders aside and become a dictator-anything. But he remained motionless and gave no sign. That's Trotzky-too loyal, too sincere, to think of self at the risk of causing a split in the party-Trotzky, the man they accused of menshevism, individualism, ambition...
...peculiarities of the present situation lies in the ease and abundance of cheap money, another in the almost motionless and sphinxlike stock market. The latter has apparently entered a curious Sargasso sea, where ships become embedded in a mass of seaweed...
Consider the pendulum! For some time that of the Student Council has hung motionless, but suddenly it has begun to swing, and on its first sweep severs two Gordian knots...
...itself in motion (e. g., a swimmer in a flowing river), the speed of the moving body depends on whether it goes with, or against, or across the current. If the medium is still, it moves past the moving body at a measurable speed. Thus, if ether is motionless, it should be possible to measure its apparent rush past the earth by detecting differences in the velocity of light when it moves in the same direction as the revolution of the earth, or in the opposite direction. The earth's speed around the sun is 18½ miles...