Word: stagnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many a French educator has begun to regard this curriculum as lopsided-a holdover from the days when most students were of the wealthy and professional classes. In stuffy, stagnant classrooms, teachers have paid little attention to the individual student, treating them all as so many minds to be crammed for the dreaded "bachot." And each year, as many as 60% of their pupils have flunked the exam...
Meanwhile, because the virus is carried by a mosquito (Culex tarsails) which breeds in stagnant water, valley residents were going all out to put oil on pools and spray everything in sight...
...done and may still do to the American future. Example: the spirit of individual enterprise has not been destroyed, but in the last 20 years it has certainly been undernourished in a way that may develop later with critical consequences to the republic. The U.S. is certainly not stagnant, but perhaps it is missing the greatest opportunity for growth in its history-an opportunity which Candidate Eisenhower must discuss in most specific terms if it is to be made real to the voters...
Harvard is still very much in the league in which it achieved national power. But compared to the grandeur that was the era of the Centre upset, the Crimson football scene is more stagnant...
...hunting season he and his men spray DDT into swamps, tidal flats, ponds and irrigation ditches. But Duclus says he owes much of his success to the voracious appetite of a small (2-in.) fish called Gambusia affinis. This olive-colored, viviparous cousin of the guppy thrives in the stagnant waters where mosquitoes breed, lives to a ripe old age of two or three years, and never loses its taste for wriggling insect larvae. In its prime, Gambusia affinis can polish off 100 incipient mosquitoes...