Word: quiescent
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While the film is dry, the linked molecules remain quiescent, but after the picture is snapped, a pair of rollers in the camera breaks a pod of thick, alkaline liquid and spreads it evenly over the film. The liquid penetrates quickly through the layers, waking the linked molecules to active chemical life. They start moving, and most of them eventually touch a grain of silver halide in the nearest light-sensitive layer. If that grain has been exposed to light, it is ready for action. It grabs the developer end of the molecule, holds it tight, and uses...
...Smadel explained, was relatively common until half a century ago, and about 2% of the victims who recovered became carriers, harboring the bacilli in a mysterious quiescent phase. Some of those carriers eventually became grandmothers...
Only from Man. Last week in Chicago, Drs. William H. Kammerer and Peter E. Stokes told the American Rheumatism Association that in the last 18 months, Betty has grown almost eight inches. Now 14, she is only about four inches short of the U.S. average. With her arthritis quiescent, she is still growing. The dramatic change took place because Betty is the first childhood arthritis patient to be treated, as a few victims of pituitary dwarfism* have been, with one of the most maddeningly hard-to-get substances known to medicine: human growth hormone...
...Frontier may have claimed a Republican victim. Shortly after Jacqueline Kennedy's Mount Vernon fête champêtre (TIME, July 21), Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen, 65, a cornbred Illinoisan, checked into Bethesda Naval Hospital for treatment of a reactivated peptic ulcer that had been quiescent for many years...
Like a King. In slack moments, the paparazzi manufacture incidents: one of their number taunts a show business idol into arm-flailing rage, and bulbs flash. The practice has a sound commercial basis : Italian newspapers and magazines pay as little as $5 for paparazzo portraits of quiescent celebrities; pictures of celebrities rampant bring as much...