Word: stagnant
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...mean job well done, slim, imperturbable General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, one of Britain's military best, won a new job, a marshal's baton. From the mud and frustration of Italy's stagnant front Alexander moved up last week to command of the Mediterranean Theater, became Britain's eighth field marshal of World...
...continent," and floating forests of trees and driftwood were a daily threat to the frail Queen Beaver. Arctic breezes whipped up icy waves that drenched the honeymooners to their skins. When they spent the night on a river island their down-lined sleeping bags were soon sodden with stagnant water...
...Areas of stagnant water serve...
...problems these characters confront are almost entirely created and solved by themselves; they seldom encounter real obstacles. In fact, "the typical radio-serial situation [can be compared to] a stagnant lake which is troubled by a stone thrown into...
...enemy defenses on Perekop ("Cross-Ditch"), the six-mile-wide northern corridor into the Crimea. One by one, Red scouts mapped the German fire points : 200 in the first line, more in the rear. Other units made ready to cross the Sivash (also called the Putrid Sea), the stagnant, shallow western corner of the Azov Sea. Then the commander, rotund General Feodor Tolbukhin, expert horseman and veteran of Stalingrad, waited...