Word: stagnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stagnant air over the mountain-hemmed area, ordinarily harmless chemicals rise from factory chimneys, auto exhausts, backyard incinerators at the rate of 3,100 tons a day. Under strong sunshine, the chemicals react with one another and with molecules of ozone (O 3 ) to form a low-hanging, acrid pall, irritating to humans and damaging to crops...
...finishing touches on a comprehensive plan to make over the French economy-basically healthy but stagnant, timid and backward-looking-which he will present to the National Assembly this week. This may prove his toughest fight...
...knowledge rests more heavily than in any other area, of the educational system. In the realm of higher education the American right to question, to explore, to express, to examine and re-examine, is of necessity exercised continually. Were it not so, our diverse intellectual resources would become stagnant...
Author Isherwood's prose still has the crisp grace of a good tennis match. He is an exterior decorator of chic and competence, whether the setting is Athens, the Alps, or the South of France. But by now he has splashed all the water out of his stagnant, neurotic pool and seems more and more like his hero-a high-and-dry orphan of the Saxophone...
Johnston set out to block Kimbel's confirmation in the Senate. He named nine persons who "desired" to testify against the nomination. Most of the anxious witnesses were members of South Carolina's stagnant old Republican organization which Kimbel has been trying to clean up. But despite three telegrams apiece from the Foreign Relations Committee, all nine failed to appear...