Word: torporous
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...electronic data processing make possible far tighter inventory controls, have helped customers to cut steel stockpiles from 20 million tons before 1956 to 10 million tons now. At the same time, steel is being pinched by the general leveling-off in hard goods (TIME, Sept. 8), and the torpor in major steel-using industries, e.g., oil, housing, railroads...
...began as just another week of heat and torpor in the Congo. Sweating natives, as usual, loaded palm kernels into boats at upcountry river stations, while understaffed United Nations teams passed out powdered milk to babies and urged the villagers to expand their scraggly little farm plots. In Leopoldville, things seemed normal enough: harassed Premier Cyrille Adoula, struggling to hold his limping central government together, still pondered ways to whip Katanga's Secessionist Moise Tshombe into line, and noted nervously that Eastern Province's Antoine Gizenga talked of breaking away again to win autonomy for his own ragtag...
...father's atelier. He moved to Paris with his family at the turn of the century. The death of Joan in 1908 caused him to turn in upon himself, break off his friendships with his artist friends (including the young Picasso), and enter 20 years' solitude, torpor and artistic death...
...rides out, finds the bodies, forces the lieutenant to face the murder he has done. The shock snaps the young man out of his moral torpor. The captain then gives him a narrow but viable chance to redeem himself-which is more, as subsequently appears, than the lieutenant's father once gave the captain...
...becomes catatonia. This year's Oscar awards show succeeded dismally. It was the longest ever televised, and its entertainment value fell somewhere between Jackpot Bowling and the little white blip that appears in the center of the screen after the set has been turned off. Part of the torpor is by now hereditary. What was new was the annual Oscar awards' spectacular morbidity. The night dragged on as a kind of animated obituary, part Beverly Hills and part Forest Lawn, which, it was suggested, may reflect the advancing years of many Academy members and their inevitable preoccupation with...