Word: placid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first jumps, Norway's George Thrane was only a point behind Arne Hoel in form, Austria's Joseph Bradl only 18 in. behind him in distance. But nobody, including World Champion Hans Bjornstad, matched Arne in both style and distance. Bjornstad, winner of the title at Lake Placid last winter, expressed the Norwegian feeling about Holmenkollen. "This is the biggest," he said. "This is the one I'd like...
...surface the U.S. went on about its business almost exactly as if the smothering hordes of Chinese Communists had remained massed, placid and inscrutable, behind the Yalu River. The season's last football games drew cheering crowds; the opulent department stores and streets were filled with millions going through the usual rites of Christmas shopping...
Another was less placid. There would be a television set in his common room only over his dead body, he warned...
...under Forest Hill's placid surface run some familiar, ugly currents. Last year, when the village opened its new, ultra-modern collegiate (i.e., high) school, the Forest Hill Board of Education suddenly brought the subject into the open. Newly arrived Jewish families, usually younger than the established residents, had more children of school age than their gentile neighbors. And many wealthy gentiles sent their children to private schools which often were closed to Jews. The result was that 65% of the new school's 550 students were Jewish. Though there were no public complaints from parents, no apparent...
...cheerfully placid when she left as she had been on arrival. After 24 hours without sleep, she got on a plane for San Francisco announcing that she had to get up early to see her grandson John Boettiger in the morning. Wasn't she tired? "Oh no," she said, "I don't feel tired at all-but sometimes I do take a few vitamins...