Word: stagnant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...habits of mosquitoes, though closely studied, are still a dark mystery. The males of a few species take their mates where they find them, just like less subtle insects. Among the Opifex fuscus of New Zealand, the males like their females young. They skim along the surface of stagnant water, watching downward intently and sometimes thrusting their heads below the surface. They are looking for female pupae about to become adult. When a pupa breaks the surface, the male tears open the pupa case and mates with the still-soft imago before it has fully emerged...
Lineup is Stagnant...
What Graves seems to be saying is that the Goddess is malevolent, too, and that her worshipers must recognize this or degenerate into stagnant smugness...
Some of the information allegedly passed on by him could not be classed, even by the wildest stretch of the imagination, as constituting espionage, e.g., reports on whether the Bulgarians were carrying out their armistice terms, and the scarcely sensational news that "Bulgarian economic life was stagnant...
Sunday afternoon in the Opera House Boris Goldovsky will open the 1948 season of his New England Opera Company with "La Boheme." In three years, the work of this cherubic Russian expatriate in the once-stagnant field of American opera has brought deserved praise to him and a new lease for young singers, designers, and directors...