Word: motionlessness
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...other act of violence occurred when a Roman player followed his own kick into the goal and jumped on the Navaro goalie's prostrate form. The latter lay there motionless, in an attitude of death, until the local Dr. Quigley scuttled out, regarded him for a moment, and then prodded him thoughtfully a couple of times with his foot. This indignity so outraged the goalie that he jumped to his feet to berate the doctor, and was promptly pronounced fit for duty...
...students never forgot what he said (in the 1945 election, 67 of them were elected Labor M.P.s). A brilliant man who could read 200 pages in an hour ("diabolically clever and omniscient," said Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes), he was also a spectacular lecturer. Sometimes gesturing excitedly and sometimes staring motionless at his palm, he spoke "with a force and conviction," recalls one student, "that sent us all away determined to reshape the world...
...Everything is reduced to the very idea of economy," observes Bronstein. "One erect triangle for the architecture of the figure ... a beautiful single hand . . . and one truth of the face-the skull. Everything is rigid, motionless, everything, save the living eyes...
...cage the blackbird sat motionless, silent and weak from hunger. On the bed lay the bodies of Ludovico and Armida Monti, and between them was the pistol with which Monti had shot first his wife, then himself. Piled beside the bed and about the house were 50,000 lire's worth of copies of Unita. Proud Ludovico Monti had not embezzled money; he had simply been unable to admit that the best Unita salesman in Tuscany could not sell as many papers as Unita had sent...
Graton's idea was to build a light microscope giving far higher magnifications than had been achieved before, and he needed an almost perfectly motionless base on which to stand it. The microscope was built in 1931, with various refinements added since, and is known as the Graton-Dune precision micro-camera. It gives a real magnification of 6,000 to 1. Electron microscopes, developed about the same time, give real magnifications up to 50,000 or 100,000 by using enlargements of negatives. This microscope disproved an old law concerning the limit of magnification of light instruments, and also...