Word: placidness
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...Beirut's will to endure; Israeli shells nearly wrecked the complex during last year's war, but Owner Raja Saab rebuilt it in five months at a cost of $10 million. The hotel and its beach club became a gathering place for all religious factions, a placid oasis in a devastated terrain. The Israelis also had reason to note an irony in the violence last week. For the first time since their invasion of Lebanon more than 13 months ago, several villages in western Galilee, an area of northern Israel bordering on Lebanon, were hit by Katyusha rockets...
...bright and seemingly placid Sunday morning. A two-vehicle Israeli patrol was traveling along a winding road in the barren foothills of the Chouf mountains southeast of Beirut. As the troops rounded a sharp curve, they passed a white Mercedes parked by the side of the road. Suddenly four men in the car jumped out and sprayed the patrol with automatic-weapons fire. Two of the soldiers were killed instantly and three others wounded. The attackers escaped...
...complex seem to have caused a humongous helicopter to hover over his head. Loaded to the rotor blades with heavy artillery and the latest in supersnooping devices, the whirling bird is intended to attack such segments of the U.S. civilian population as happen to get unruly-though in these placid times the film makers are hard-pressed to find a domestic threat worthy of their hardware. The principal business of Blue Thunder is to offer a garish and entirely unpersuasive audiovisual demonstration of this preposterous machine in action...
...rank-and-file Tories are made. He did not so much idealize stability as worship it, and as a result his entire view of rural England presents Arcadia in a new guise. One could never imagine, looking at his paintings of Dedham Vale and the River Stour, that the placid shires of the 1820s and '30s looked very different to the writer and reformer William Cobbett, that they were full of rick burners, machine breakers, hanging judges and posses of brutal yeomanry...
Public reaction was swift and devastating--the largest out cry Watt has stirred up in his far-from-placid two years in office, a department of official reported. Disc jockeys across the country inveighed against Watt-one called him "the administration's chief nerd." The Beach Boys, the most prominent group to play at the Fourth of July concert in past years, issued a statement that declared. "After Watt's remarks, we believe the Department of the Interior has attracted the wrong element...