Word: stagnantly
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...located and rotating in contrasting directions. "I hate my tassels, but the boys love them, so I let them have it. I was 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...
...that there was some unnecessary repetition between courses, such as Ec. 45a on Business Cycles and Ec. 41 on Money, Banking and Commercial Crises. Members gave their hearty approval to the staff of teachers, most of whom are deeply absorbed in economics and are active in research. Consequently, the stagnant drill-master is a rare specimen in the Economics Department. Many members hope that Schumpeter can find time for an undergraduate course next year...
...World War I had stopped, manufacturers started buying frantically from each other in order to be ready. The FRB production index headed straight up; then-when the export orders failed to materialize-it dived. So 1940 opened to the twinge of a familiar business headache: inventory trouble, just like stagnant...
...roads led to Rome last week, and the Romans used them, lickety-split. Along a rock-&-gravel supply highway which Marshal Rodolfo Graziani had just completed from Sidi Barrani back to bases in Libya, Italy's Army of the stagnant Egyptian invasion ran for its life. Along an Albanian road hugging the cliffs spectacularly from Porto Edda to Valona, built by the Italians during the last war and subject of great engineering pride with them, Italy's Army of the reversible Greek invasion made further headway backwards. The Italians were so completely on the run that Adolf Hitler...
Like French public opinion, Free France itself is paralyzed. The wisest, most effective and popular leadership the country might produce could not overcome the one great fact that France is stagnant and waiting. It is waiting for some national ethos to develop, some popular base on which a government can find a true foothold, whether the ethos is communicated from the top or bottom. It is waiting for the time when it can become not half a country but one country. Above all it is waiting-and the Germans are deliberately making it wait-for the end of the Battle...