Word: stagnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Islam is militarily feeble, a disgrace to a religion that so eagerly took up the sword. Islam is intellectually stagnant, an ironic punishment for a religion which was founded upon an idea which at centuries carried the lamp of learning, and then, at the crisis of its history, deliberately turned its back upon reason as the enemy of faith...
...turned out though, they didn't. The sophs had been tipped off, but were sporting about their victory. As a freshman described it to me, "First the sophs made us walk barefoot in a stagnant pool and poison ivy--but they let us give our cheer...
...aside all oil revenues to pay for the seven-year development plan drawn up by Overseas Consultants, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 24, 1949). Now, the Iran-Anglo-Iranian deadlock meant no money, no development. Meanwhile, the need for the plan had grown: Iran was reeling from crop failures, business was stagnant, half a million were unemployed...
...fascinating book. Its central character, a tempest-tossed Irishman named Ezra Arrigho, has spent the war in Germany and has just returned to Ireland to settle down in a little town. What can he say of it? Scornfully, Ezra decides that most of its people live dull, stagnant lives in little duck ponds while secretly hoping for "miracle, excitement and sensation...
...people in one small area and is exactly the more effective for that narrowing. The future world of "Night Journey" is a terrible, muddled, complicated thing. It is a logical nightmare in which a woman can watch leaflets proclaiming a free election and freedom drop from a stagnant yellow cloud, and fearfully shout that "they are coming with their elections and their germs." It is a future which jostles rudely against the present...