Word: quiescent
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...press has pleaded victim to the Administration's deceptive tactics. But it was hardly an unwilling victim. In the months preceding the disinformation campaign, Khaddafy had been inactive on the terrorist front, and a concurrent Administration memo available to the press had characterized the Libyan leader as "quiescent...
...Tristan Tzara with delightful expression and intensity. In some scenes, Gelber is the quiet and effete conversationalist. Then, he suddenly will burst out into a rage of "Dada, Dada," toppling chairs over as he goes. Gelber serves as a necessary energetic interlude in a play that often becomes too quiescent...
...past gaps hit by recent tremors are the areas most likely to rupture next, rather the way buttons popping on a shirt put greater pressure on the buttons still intact. Noting that earthquakes in the 20th century have periodically shaken surrounding regions, geologists knew that Mexico's Michoacan gap--quiescent for many decades--could not hold out forever. "Wherever stress builds up for a long time in a seismic gap," says David Simpson of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, "something's got to give...
American political moods run in cycles. Periods of activity and reform, of idealism and change, alternate with more quiescent, complacent, even cynical times. Schlesinger believes that the activist cycle comes around every 30 years or so. Thus the era of Teddy Roosevelt at the turn of the century, then the New Deal beginning in 1933, then Kennedy in 1961. By Schlesinger's hopeful calculation, the U.S. will be ripe for another time of idealism and political innovation toward the end of this decade...
...source of fury and wonder to Western industries; a pressure point in the U.S.-Soviet staring match; a power without arms. Looking inward, Japan sees old ways shaken and new ones moving at so hectic a pace that the nation's next volcano may erupt not from the quiescent cone of Mount Fuji but from the people themselves, who could be outrunning their...