Word: placide
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...many hundreds a month for nothing. Would you ever in your secret soul forgive me?" Though he was bombarding Charlotte with passionate prose at the time, he described her to his actress friend with clinical objectivity as "a ladylike person at whom nobody would ever look twice. . . . Perfectly placid and proper and pleasant...
...zoos. But the picture of the gorilla as a beastly beast draws only tolerant smiles from Zoologist George B. Schaller. After two years spent among the mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei) that live near Lake Kivu in the eastern Congo, Schaller is convinced that his hairy friends are placid, peace-loving creatures who seldom damage anything except edible plants. His book, The Mountain Gorilla (University of Chicago; $10), is crammed with more information about the great beasts than any nongorilla has ever gathered before...
...years between were relatively drab for Boros. Big, placid and pleasant, he has long been one of pro golfs sturdy citizens, playing a good but unspectacular game. He went home with $37,032 in 1952, the first time he won the Open (sportswriters called it a fluke), and took $63,121 in 1955. But he made only $5,595 in 1953, $5,358 in 1956, and in 13 years on the tour he won only nine tournaments. As he got older, it began to look as if he might not win another. His shoulders ached from bursitis; tendon trouble swelled...
...second floor of the bank here. Most of its members are professional men who arrive promptly for meetings, dispatch their business efficiently and return to their comfortable suburban homes. Just now, the Commerce's main item of business is the publication of a small brochure describing the placid luxuriousness of life here in Kent County...
...conversation white leaders cannot help but suggest the kind of things they field. "We don't like the idea of you people coming in here to destroy the quiet, placid life we all enjoy," one man told my Negro partner and me in the midst of a relatively calm discussions. "What you people don't seem to understand is that the whole thing is really a matter of choice. I don't choose to live in your people's world, and they don't choose to live in mine...