Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike of recent times had lasted 13 weeks, the longest major strike since 1950. Some 50,000 of Westinghouse's 116,000 employees were out, and almost half of the company's 98 plants (e.g., those producing atomic reactors, electronic tubes, air conditioners) sat as cold and motionless as tombs. At most. 4,500 of the strikers had crossed the picket lines and gone back to work...
...Some spins have more energy than others, and the spinning nuclei can affect the spin of other nuclei near them. So high-energy spin can spread through a substance in much the same way that heat does. Low-energy spin can spread, too, so a substance whose atoms are motionless in the ordinary sense can still lose energy and cool below absolute zero...
Though there is less hazing than at West Point, first-year men must swab the barracks, serve in the mess hall, stand motionless whenever a North Star (four-year man) passes by. Demerits come for everything from dozing in class to "questioning an officer"-a rule designed to keep cadets from humiliating inexperienced instructors with tricky questions...
...massive, carved, 14-foot-long wooden trencher held 120 gallons of fish stew. The host would often perform a ceremony roughly equivalent to lighting a cigar with a $100 bill: he ladled out the savory fish oil onto the fire. The stoic guests proved themselves unimpressed by sitting motionless even when the flames blistered their legs and set fire to their bearskin robes...
...President flew in to Washington, he was greeted by a throng that included Vice President and Mrs. Nixon, Senator Knowland, other members of Congress and the diplomatic corps. As he stepped out of the Columbine III, the band struck up the Star-Spangled Banner, and the President stood motionless, his hat over his heart, as the rain of a summer shower spattered down on him.* Then, before a rosette of microphones, the President ignored the raindrops streaming down his face and soaking his summer suit. "After the hard week I have been through," he said, "it is very heart warming...