Word: statical
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...sergeant standing by the hatch suddenly turned and spoke. His men clattered to their feet. Trailing from the back of each man's pack was a 15-foot "static cord," with a buckle on the free end. Each man reached down, seized the buckle, snapped it to the overhead cable. They crowded into line, right hand on the shoulder of the man in front, shuffled toward the hatch. The sergeant tensed his body, flexed his knees down and out, dived. His static cord whipped straight behind him, tightened, yanked the canvas cover from his 'chute...
Through their famed American Friends Service Committee, they urged that it would be "easier to start rebuilding the world now" than "after more years of destruction and exhaustion." They declared that peace was "not a static condition to be attained after the defeat of those who disturb it," but "a dynamic method by which to remove injustices, accomplish necessary readjustments, and remedy the evils...
Party Line. In Manorville, L.I., static on a party line was eliminated when telephone company investigators persuaded a woman to stop using her receiver as a darning...
...this far. But they stop and watch critically as he plunges onward into his electrodynamic theory of animal energy: Chemical energy in the brain, he announced last week, charges it with positive electricity; and the heart-pumped friction of red blood corpuscles rushing through their arterial courses generates negative static electricity...
...Hokusai Saw," on the other hand, is for me at least, a complete failure. Instead of a real transmutation of the feeling of the paintings to the feeling of the poems, what we have is static verse, bulging with adjectives. The poems seem to add nothing and to lose a great deal...