Word: stagnant
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...world is moving inevitably towards a frozen, stagnant death, Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics, predicted in a magazine article published yesterday...
...Stagnant air hung heavy and ominous over the parched plains last week. Then a cold front hit and the year's worst duster began to blow. Winds up to 70 m.p.h. whipped across 120,000 square miles of the Southwest dust bowl, and the earth boiled into black clouds 20,000 feet high in the sky. The dust was so thick that dawn came invisibly; when rain began to fall, tiny mud balls pelted the town of Guymon, Okla. Schools closed, stores shut down, and thousands of farm families listened tensely at their radios as their lands and livelihoods...
Despite seven and a half energetic months in office, former French Premier Mendes-France failed in his most significant objective--the creation of an effective parliamentary majority with which to govern France. Without that majority, any hopes for a revitalization of the long-stagnant French economy are bound to remain illusory. But far from spelling final defeat for Mendes-France's reform plans, his overthrow should offer a new and greater opportunity, if he acts wisely in his coming period of opposition...
...Then Professor P. Claudio Sestieri and a gang of laborers set to work (TIME, Sept. 6). From tombs came vivid paintings on stone of household scenes and fighting gladiators. Last summer Sestieri uncovered a small, completely buried building, made a hole in its roof and lowered himself into the stagnant dimness. He was in the central shrine of Hera, Goddess of Fertility, and patron of Paestum. Jars and vases held solidified honey, sacred to Hera (see opposite page). It is likely that no one had entered that shrine for at least 2,500 years...
...strange nature of this year's recession-with some industries still setting new records while others are in trouble-is the best evidence that the economy is neither "stable" nor "stagnant," in the sense of being motionless. With such new industries as air conditioning and color television still in their infancy, and with new consumers being born at the rate of 10,700 a day, most economists believe that it would be difficult indeed for the U.S. economy to become stagnant. What has actually happened, in the view of Harvard's Economist Sumner Slichter and others, is that...