Word: stagnant
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...done and may still do to the American future. Example: the spirit of individual enterprise has not been destroyed, but in the last 20 years it has certainly been undernourished in a way that may develop later with critical consequences to the republic. The U.S. is certainly not stagnant, but perhaps it is missing the greatest opportunity for growth in its history-an opportunity which Candidate Eisenhower must discuss in most specific terms if it is to be made real to the voters...
Harvard is still very much in the league in which it achieved national power. But compared to the grandeur that was the era of the Centre upset, the Crimson football scene is more stagnant...
Islam is militarily feeble, a disgrace to a religion that so eagerly took up the sword. Islam is intellectually stagnant, an ironic punishment for a religion which was founded upon an idea which at centuries carried the lamp of learning, and then, at the crisis of its history, deliberately turned its back upon reason as the enemy of faith...
...hunting season he and his men spray DDT into swamps, tidal flats, ponds and irrigation ditches. But Duclus says he owes much of his success to the voracious appetite of a small (2-in.) fish called Gambusia affinis. This olive-colored, viviparous cousin of the guppy thrives in the stagnant waters where mosquitoes breed, lives to a ripe old age of two or three years, and never loses its taste for wriggling insect larvae. In its prime, Gambusia affinis can polish off 100 incipient mosquitoes...
...turned out though, they didn't. The sophs had been tipped off, but were sporting about their victory. As a freshman described it to me, "First the sophs made us walk barefoot in a stagnant pool and poison ivy--but they let us give our cheer...