Word: motionlessness
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...snapped like twine, and the wind whipped the 139-ton craft about like Piper Cubs. As the big blow struck, a C-47 was ready to take off. The pilot saw what was coming, and "flew" at full power into the teeth of the gale. The plane stood almost motionless above the field. In Carswell's control tower, the wind indicator hand shot up, indicated 91 m.p.h. Then part of the anemometer blew away...
Occasionally, Barkley forced a grin. Occasionally, he lifted his thick arms for the beelike clusters of photographers below him. But for the most part he remained motionless and impassive, his hands clamped on the stand. Behind him in the mezzanine his pretty wife stood, surrounded by applauding women, stared expressionlessly straight ahead. She licked her lips as if her mouth were dry. Then, finally, the uproar hushed and Alben Barkley began to speak-his vigorous, harsh, measured and practiced voice carrying to the farthest corners of the huge hall...
...worked in the features, adding light and shadow. After years of work, Ferri has a 328-page illustrated manuscript crammed with his notes and impressions. One impression: the Apostle Thaddeus' whole manner and bearing point to Leonardo; he is a man "indifferent to what is happening around him . . . motionless, bent under the weight of a problem he is trying to resolve...
...folded her hands before her in the Hindu posture of namqskar. It was a gesture which would have horrified and infuriated a proper memsahib of the old school; and few Western women could have attempted it without seeming fantastically silly or fantastically melodramatic. But Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, standing motionless under the Indian sky in her grandmotherly, garden-club dress, just seemed a little awkward and very earnest...
Over the dusty cow town, silence hangs heavy as doom. The womenfolk, both spangled and respectable, huddle helplessly on stairways and behind shuttered windows. Tense and motionless at the long bar stands a frieze of deputies and desperadoes. Even the bearded comic for once is solemn and wary. For this is the moment when virtue - lean, clean, manly, and quick on the draw - must face evil in single combat, to triumph or bite the dust...