Word: stagnantly
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...influence of relationship history on one’s dating outlook, she includes an anecdote from a 14-year-old: “The first boy I ever dated kissed with a soggy open mouth...I felt as if I were being forced to lick the side of a stagnant well. His tongue was a live, wriggling fish that reeked of algae and muck that left a trail of glistening slime across my lips...[So] I figured that kissing was just another of those nasty things that adults had to endure, like scraping dinner plates and wiping baby?...
Current undergraduates seem to think that Summers was in the vanguard of a courageous attack on a stagnant faculty, and are treating him as a martyr to the cause of curriculum reform. This is not the case...
...lack of competitiveness makes for a routinely boring product. During the final, the pro-Canadian crowd mostly sat silent, stultified by the stagnant play. Lacking speed, Sweden followed a strategy that amounted to stacking the neutral zone at mid-ice with all five skaters in hopes of gumming up the offense. Sweden failed to manufacture legitimate scoring chances, even on power plays...
During Cramer’s interview with Spitzer, his friend from Law School and frequent guest on the show, the two discussed corporate ethics. Cramer asked Spitzer whether the state attorney general’s investigations into companies were worth it—considering that the market has been stagnant...
Early in the season, the No. 13 Harvard men’s hockey team struggled to maintain its early leads, playing stagnant third periods as fans bit their fingernails to the quick. And in retrospect, that very well might have been better than what’s going on now.Because now, those early leads are harder and harder to come by, and third periods more and more frequently see the Crimson (10-7-2, 7-6-1 ECAC) playing from behind.After Friday’s 1-1 tie with Union (10-8-4, 3-3-2) and Saturday?...