Word: stagnant
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...been well said that "he who drinks from one occupied in learning drinks from a running stream; he who learns from one who has already learned all he has to teach, drinks the 'green mantle of the stagnant pool...
Last week many an investor figured that the next production upswing will be led not by consumer-goods industries, but by the long stagnant, overcapacitied, capital-goods industries (see p. 71). Backing up this belief, the following capital-goods companies rehearsed their roles for a rearming economy...
...Army got a good look at Louisiana: moss, bats, and dark, stagnant pools in forests of oak and pine; Negroes, staring wall-eyed from weather-grey shacks; from shacks no better, poor whites whose grand pappies saw the Confederates run the Yanks off this same land; a new oil find, 30 miles south of prosperous Alexandria; cotton, corn, potatoes, rice where cane grew until Louisiana sugar prices went to pot. Yellow signs reading: TROOPS, KEEP OUT hung on fence posts and trees. These signs marked farms whose owners had refused the Army permission to cross their land. One officer, seeking...
...Republican nomination. And before him, besides the Western ranges, lay a series of talks in Helena, Spokane, Portland, Salt Lake, Boise, 20-odd weeks before the Republican convention would meet in Philadelphia (see p. 17), and a chance to preach the doctrine of future growth in the least stagnant section of the country...
...inspired to originate the tassel dance by the tassel of a window shade that I was watching one day. I resolved to put life into that stagnant thing," she says, and she does...