Word: stagnant
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...gloom between begins with a Manhattan street at night and an old couple on their darkening porch in Virginia, sweeps across London's Petticoat Lane, where people eat and try on clothes with the same grubby boredom, to Berliners dancing by a stagnant pool and a Viennese carnival in the background. Says Koerner: "Who is guilty, the man who kills or those who turn their backs? It's a sort of question...
...massive, spinning wheels banged across the top of his car, bent it down a full six inches, left him unhurt. The plane lurched on, shearing off light poles, slammed back to earth, slid with a crash of metal, and stopped beside a stagnant pond. Then it burst into flames...
...every man's moves and every man's motivations. Take that fear away from Greece and it will be back to normal within three to five years. And that, with a minimum of financial support from abroad. Leave Greece one more year in its present terrorized and stagnant condition and nothing will save that country from extinction-not even the U.S. Budget...
...than 17, slim and pretty, lay on the damp earth, her lips blue with death; her eyes were open and the rain fell on them. People chipped at bark, pounded it by the roadside for food; vendors sold leaves at a dollar a bundle. Ghostlike men were skimming the stagnant pools to eat the green slime of the waters. Once our horses sheered off violently from two people lying side by side in the night, sobbing aloud in their desolation...
...respect the summer was better than usual: there had been almost no "Bermuda highs" - the masses of stagnant air which often loiter for days or weeks over the Atlantic. Slowly revolving in a clockwise direction, they plague the coast al areas with sweltering humid weather blown off the tepid Gulf Stream, make Manhattan seem like Manila or Singapore...