Word: stagnant
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...would dramatically underline the paradox of the two different kinds of democracy for which Americans are fighting today. On the one hand would be Carl Sandburg representing the forces believing in progressive, twentieth-century democracy, and on the other Clare Hoffman, the little white god of believers in stagnant, Victorian democracy--the status quo boys. No two candidates could better represent their respective sides...
Most successful method of malaria control has been to drain swamps and pour oil on stagnant waters. But on the island of Trinidad, this system does not work. A mosquito of different habits, the Anopheles bellator, was suspected...
...came back. This time they attacked on a vaster scale. They landed parachutists at such widely separated points as Eupatoria and Feodosiya (see map), bombed the opposite extremes of Perekop and Yalta, sent landing parties ashore along the Crimea's Black Sea coast and across the shallow, stagnant enclosed sea called the Putrid...
Dust-Bowl farmers looked at their sodden fields last week and cursed the rain they had longed for in other years. Drought-scarred Kansas was drenched. The water lay in placid sheets high as the wheat heads. On lowland farms and in valleys the grain stood rotting under the stagnant waste of water left by spring floods...
...Resources Planning Board's warning had proved right. Budd thought that 100,000 cars could be built in twelve months; but even before the railroads' belated call for new equipment, everybody was fighting for steel, plant space, new machinery. Railroad equipment builders long since had hedged against stagnant car sales by filling up their plants with orders for shot & shell. The builders had 42,000 new cars on order: their consensus was that if new orders were placed right away and 0PM gave them steel priorities, they could turn out another 40-45,000, or a total...