Word: calmâ
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...group in the state, have shaped Minnesota's character. They, together with its large Anglo-Saxon and German strain, account for a deep grain of sobriety and hard work, a near-worship for education and a high civic tradition in Minnesota life. Such qualities helped to produce the intelligent calm???and the stolidity?that characterize the efficient Minnesota atmosphere. It is telling that the University of Minnesota is probably the dominant and most prestigious institution in the state. Its president, Malcolm Moos, sees Minnesota as a felicitous mixture of the New England in fluence and the spirit of the frontier...
...anxious conclave including two members of his Cabinet and two of his White House secretariat, the President did not have to be told that the kind of "resting" the country had been doing during the last 30 days was anything but wholesome. The U. S. was calm???but it was the calm of economic stagnation. The month of Presidential vacationing had not been a month of national happiness...
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