Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neither of despair nor grief but rather a paroxysm of savage passion, most impressive to witness and startling to hear. During the lulls in their death-song they would resume their pipes and with the exception of an occasional mutter or the rattling of their chains they sat motionless and impassive until one among the elder would break out in the wild wail...
...blimps now in convoy service comprise what the Navy calls the K Class. They are of 416,000 cu. ft., are powered with two airplane engines, can hover motionless in the air or make 55 m.p.h...
...which blimpmen call "the car," is fitted out with airline luxury-three bunks, chrome chairs, cookstove. There is a reason for these comforts. Effective watch is a terrible strain, especially when the lookout must scan not only the surface, but underwater-for U-boats have a habit of lying motionless on the continental shelf in daytime. Consequently blimp observers can stand watch only a little over an hour at a time, are encouraged to doze during the off watches. Any comfort they can be given is not wasted...
...noble Lords stared motionless at the floor, while Lord Portsea waited, one hand raised. Finally he whispered: "There is no reply. On your heads be it. I beg leave to withdraw." He sat down. His old friend Viscount Bledisloe, 74, walked over and pressed his hand...
...travels around the center of the Milky Way at 109 miles per second, i.e., 36% slower than astronomers formerly computed (Nicholas U. Mayall of the University of California)-if the far-off globular star clusters, against which he measured the Sun's motion, are themselves motionless. Mayall also confirmed "earlier evidence that our entire Milky Way is in rapid rotation around the distant center of Sagittarius." But he now suspects that the entire Milky Way may weigh only half as much as observers have believed. Sighed a New York Times headline: "Earth's Significance Diminishes...