Word: static
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Father Cummings lay dying, the U.S. Bureau of Mines, by a coincidence, issued a set of recommendations to reduce the hazard. Wool blankets, plastic sheets and most synthetic fabrics should not be allowed near an anesthesia machine, the bureau said, because of the danger that they will generate static electricity and cause a spark. Cotton should be used instead. Doctors and nurses must not wear wool trousers, nylon gowns, or rubber-soled shoes. Tables, machines and stools should have non-insulating feet, to conduct static electricity to the floor...
...plain talk, this saga of the Young Pretender is too static to be a good adventure story...
...spite of reform, the pols always come back; the Sir Galahads, sooner or later, get licked, or get laughed out of court, or join the gang. But men like Adlai Stevenson have dedicated themselves to a more hopeful and more dynamic proposition: that the U.S. is not a static pattern but a still-continuing experiment-an experiment, among other things, in good government...
...above all, like all Americans, he is interested in things that are new. It must be admitted that, just now and then, preoccupation with the new leads to too little attention to old and tried principles; nevertheless it is thus that medicine in America is dynamic, not static...
Most of the philosophers consider sections of Marxist doctrine immutable, but they try to improvise where the Marxist theory has no practical application. The theme of the book may be the attempt of the authors to combine static Marxism, which they considered immutable, with the changing needs of their society...