Word: placidness
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...they "are putting communities over the barrel of a gun," says Tom Garrison, an aide in the youth gang agency of Los Angeles. This "is a war zone." The Mexican Mafia and Nuestra Familia, both hatched in prison, have long been a problem. But now Monterey Park, a once placid community east of the city, is torn by Chinese thugs. Orange County, home to tens of thousands of Indochinese immigrants, has a severe extortion problem. Hispanic gangs, some of them using identifying tattoos and hand signals, have spread throughout the area. The Mojados (wetbacks) specialize in small-time crime...
...bring machine guns to dispatch the few remaining antelope in the area. To speed the growth of new grass, they set vast bush fires each year, which incinerate most of the young wildlife. Barley also fails to find the exalted spirituality expected among the primitives. The Dowayos are placid people, devoted to ribald joking, sexual freedom, wife beating and an unusual beer that Barley says "enables one to pass directly from sobriety to hangover without an intervening stage of drunkenness." Every so often, the natives erupt in frenzied skull-cult ceremonies, but basically nothing much else ever happens...
After the tensions of the Netherlands, John Paul spent a placid day and a half in Luxembourg. He then moved on to Belgium, where the crowds lining the streets and joining the mass meetings were once again large and friendly, as they have been in so many nations. The Pope was scheduled to fly back to Rome...
...bike ride. Even though I do all that fishing, playing, attending concerts and studying. I still have time for a Dogs hockey, game. I live my own life, but I think the hockey, players are great and I even got some of their autographs last year after Lake Placid. I asked my Dad about Duluth "fading" and people moving. He said, "We moved to Duluth 5 years ago because Duluth is fast becoming a service center for the area. It is a regional medical center, banking center, education center, and still has a lot of grain and one shipping, with...
With the way the Hockey East and ECAC tournaments have worked out, it seems logical to expect Hockey East to move into the Garden next year and see the ECAC move its event to Lake Placid, which is closer to most of the conference's contending schools...