Word: motionlessness
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...responsibility, and Winston Churchill is a human being, not an Atlas. Britain's production of war materiel has lagged behind expectations; the one great exception is airplanes. Britain's transport facilities have been faulty, with slow unloading and turnaround of supply ships, with clogging of goods on motionless ships and trains, or on docks, where they make easy Nazi bomb targets. Lack of coordination between Government agencies has made the supply of food and housing to Blitzed Britishers, and the reconstruction of bombed areas, much slower than need be. Last week it seemed that Winston Churchill badly needed...
...Industrial Revolution together with its headaches has brought a decrease in the price of paint. Labor is plentiful around the Yard--or so it would seem from the fine stock of motionless Yard cops. It would be quite simple to paint titles in those soot-stained spaces above the old doors, long untouched by anything but squirrels...
...sugar-bowl ears won't predominate. They quickly learn that a new comer like Ingrid Bergman must be shot from the left as her face is expressionless from the other side. They are careful with close-ups of older beauties like Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich, keeping them motionless to conceal the wrinkles that make-up and careful lighting won't hide. Photographing rubber chins and putty noses on a bias to avoid detection is a matter of course...
Floodwaters crept over Dunster House last night as Malcolm McNair, Jr. '42 planted his feet on the drain of his shower and stood motionless for over sixty minutes...
...next to the last of the 30 jumps -after leading for nearly four miles-Royal Danieli toppled, lay motionless on the emerald-green turf while Co-Favorite MacMoffat and lightly fancied Bogskar led the field past him. Neck & neck MacMoffat and Bogskar took the last fence...