Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eastbound freight train had stopped on the main line with a broken air hose. Another freight, pounding east behind it, had crashed into its motionless bulk, knocked a locomotive and seven heavy-laden cars across the westbound tracks. Out of the night the Triangle raced at 70 miles an hour. Brief, bright showers of sparks gritted from desperately locked brakes. Then the Triangle hit the wreckage. Both its locomotives and three of its cars tumbled off the rails. A geyser of live steam shot up. Glass crashed, metal shrieked and groaned on metal. In the stillness which followed, the train...
...while he tried to imitate the exactitude of Ingres -but by his sophomore year the middle-aged master's drawings were true-to-life and also true to the principles which had been formulated by Poet Charles Baudelaire : "A good drawing is not a hard, cruel, motionless line enclosing a form like a straitjacket. Drawing should be like nature, living and restless. . . . Nature shows us an endless series of-curved, fleeting, broken lines, according to an unerring law of generation, in which parallels are always undefined and meandering, and concaves and convexes correspond to and pursue each other...
Royal Confinement. This happens every night until the larvae are enclosed in cocoons to change into motionless pupae. Deprived of the stimulation which they get from, the larvae's squirmings, the workers lose their restlessness. The whole colony marches into a hollow log. After a few days of this seclusion, the queen is gravid. Her abdomen swells enormously, and she lays some 30,000 eggs, which hatch into tender white larvae. When both larvae and "callow" ants are ready to travel, the colony becomes nomadic again...
...Ether. The ether had another valuable property: it was at rest-"the calm ether-sea"-while everything else in the universe was in motion. Thus it provided the only stable "frame of reference." The earth, for instance, was thought to have "absolute motion" through the motionless ether...
...hours later another shift of MPs took over. The new sergeant made Fechner stand motionless with his face to the wall. After an hour and a half, the old man, an ex-concentration camp prisoner, collapsed. The sergeant ordered him up again. "You Nazi pig," he yelled, "for twelve years you raised your hand in the Nazi salute, and here you don't want to stand up!" At 2 a.m. the three Germans were turned over to the German police...