Word: stagnant
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...rate the time had come when I must needs stir the stagnant gray matter away from thoughts of Portsmouth or Clearfields or the hills of Idaho. But what to say? Would the public like to know what goes on behind the closed doors of the good ship Briggs when the P. Listers are out frolicking...
Goods Cannot Move. Through no fault of its own, China is stagnant. Japan's very nearly total blockade has accomplished a kind of stillness inside China that looks to some Chinese like the stillness of death...
Industry is stagnant, or was at least until 1940, when war production was boosted by the military necessity of supplying Britain's Eastern armies...
...Author Seghers does not set out simply to tell the story of her hero. She uses him as a device to stir the fetid waters of Nazi life in order to bring to the surface of that stagnant pool those individual emotions, beliefs and acts of courage and humanity that the Nazis like to keep concealed. This is a book of people, not of techniques of escape...
...manufactured burlap, 99% of it originates in India, and 85% of that comes from around the steaming Ganges Delta in Bengal Province. In no other part of the world where acceptable jute can be grown has labor been persuaded to process it, for jute must soak in stagnant water, must be hand-worked by natives who wade waist-deep in the stinking mess...