Word: motionlessness
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...what he knew seemed to satisfy him. He had seen an airman's dream come true: the helicopter* (which irreverent Sikorsky disciples, in mock-Russian accent, call the helicopéter) could now do more than take off straight up in the air, land straight down and hover motionless. It could also carry a respectable load (two passengers), enough gasoline to make cross-country flights...
Before the war, antiquated river steamers puffed through the heart of Paris along the silent river Seine. On a lovely spring morning those who sat on deck beheld history unfold before their eyes. Between floating laundry barges, tall poplars, lines of motionless fishermen, they passed within a stone's throw of Daumier's house on the Ile St. Louis. Gliding under the great city's bridges, they threaded their way through the formal shadow of the Louvre, crept by the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, skirted the soft Bois de Boulogne, finally relinquished the monuments...
...moving was the man likeliest to be killed. Those who were motionless in the New Guinea jungle were Japanese. Those who moved were Americans and Australians. The Japanese had cut down coconut palms, roofed their pillboxes with tree trunks, piled the roofs high with sand-filled rice bags. Machine-gun slits and gun bays gave out from cleverly constructed trenches radiating from the pillboxes...
...shadow-barred jungle the motionless men said: "You must come in to kill us." Since September U.S. and Australian troops had been moving in to do it. Not until light tanks, 13-ton General Stuarts, were brought into action Dec. 8 did the tide begin to run decisively for the United Nations (TIME, Dec. 28). Even then it was a slow, bunker-by-bunker ad vance. Thrice General MacArthur announced that victory was near. Buna village and Gona, farther north, fell by mid-December, but not Buna Mission, a mile from the village, or other regions along the coast...
General MacArthur announced that the Buna area had been cleaned up. Between Buna and Gona a pocket of Jap jungle fighters remained on Sanananda Point, their number unknown, their lives a poor risk, even though victory in New Guinea is as elusive as Tojo's motionless...