Word: contentedness
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It is hard to pinpoint exactly why a group so united in outrage as the vendors that first Saturday night could be so contented in complacency 20 days later. Many of the more active strikers went back to college, others were no longer fascinated with the thrill of labor-management...
Many of the vendors on those waning days of the pennant race contented themselves with the knowledge that they had the solidarity and the guts to walkout on one of the biggest nights of the season and they they really stood up to the employer and screamed right into the...
"Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise," Biologist Lewis Thomas writes in The Lives of a Cell. Thomas' sense of contented dazzlement and...
The reception accorded Nixon on the way into town contrasted sharply with the greeting in Egypt. The sparse lines of Saudis along the streets contented themselves with clapping their hands rhythmically and waving banners as the President and the King, all but hidden in the closed Rolls-Royce, whispered by...
Bolingbroke: Are you contented to resign the crown?