Word: motionlessness
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...flight engineer's board, instrument needles flickered away from their reassuring positions. An outboard engine began to lose oil; it flowed back over the wing like blood in the moonlight. The plane began to shudder; the far starboard engine died. Its feathered prop stood stark and motionless. The plane rumbled on uneasily, unevenly. The other starboard engine sputtered and died, and the craft began to lose altitude. Up forward, the radio operator methodically clicked out an SOS, giving his position. The white-faced passengers cinched themselves into life jackets, tightened their-safety belts, and waited...
...wheat to music? The idea fascinated him, said Composer Thomson. It was a "problem of representing by music, which is made out of motion, something almost motionless...
...moorings. Parisians could see scarcely 30 yards ahead. In Berlin the airlift was halted for 15 hours, and in Denmark harbors, fishing smacks rolled blindly and helplessly at anchor. Even in London's deep Underground last week there were wispy traces of the fog that hung heavy and motionless over some 500 miles of Europe...
...industrial gases had mingled in the fog, had gone through a series of chemical reactions and resolved into droplets of sulphuric acid. Dr. William Rongaus of the Donora Board of Health was certain that his town's tragedy was also the result of industrial fumes collecting in the motionless, humid air. Said he, bitterly: "It's plain murder." The zinc smeltery shut down. At week's end, the cause of the trouble "was still unknown. But rain had stirred the fog and apparently ended the danger...
Last year, in the luxurious hotel in Zurich where they had gone to live, Sophie Lehar died. At first the broken and ailing Franz spent his days and nights sitting motionless in a chair in his room. Last month, when he was given a blood transfusion at his Bad Ischl home near Salzburg, word spread that he had died. Said Franz: "Hardly ever before was there a man whom the press was so eager to eliminate." But his strength was indeed ebbing and, one day this week, at 78, he followed Sophie...