Word: motionlessness
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...favorite pastime of the employes at this pear station was to use the rat-kangaroo as a target while it sat motionless in the glare of a carbide light. It was not uncommon to kill several in an evening. The wallaby also suffers from this type of sport. A score in one evening was considered a goodly kill...
Lassiter caught the Army kick-off and was downed on the Yale 22-yd. line. Lassiter got up but an Army end who had tried to tackle him did not. He, Richard Brinsley Sheridan,* of Augusta, Ga., lay motionless, sprawled on his back. The Army trainer ran out from the sidelines, knelt beside Sheridan. Then two cadets lifted Sheridan onto a stretcher and carried him off the field. The game continued and ended...
...that her knuckles were white. Their daughter, Mary Louise, 7, who had spent the weeks romping through the court room, sat quietly next to him, looking scared. For Col. Lea the Judge ordered imprisonment for from six to ten years. The Colonel paled, then flushed, but his lips were motionless. His wife nearly sobbed. When Luke Lea Jr. heard he had been fined $25,000 he sat unmoved. Mrs. Davis wept when she heard her husband sentenced for from four to six years. But the former bank president looked as unconcerned as he had last May when he was sentenced...
Finally Siamese are unaffectedly religious, which is not to say good or goody-goody. Buddhist priests in plain yellow robes go from house to house in the early mornings, stop motionless and silent before each door proffering a bowl. If no food is placed in the bowl the priest moves on. If food is forthcoming, as it nearly everywhere is, he hurries with his bowl to the Buddhist monastery, shares with his fellows, devotes the rest of the morning and the day to religious duties...
Held almost motionless in the first period, Notre Dame opened its box of tricks against a strong Carnegie team. Wonderful passing turned what had been advertised as a "one-point" game into a runaway. Notre Dame 21, Carnegie...