Word: placidness
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...Coop management, then, the store's 100th anniversary should be occasion not for placid celebration--for profits alone are nothing to celebrate--but instead for looking both back at the Coop's past and ahead to its future. The past should remind them of the forgotten ideals of the retail cooperative--fair prices, compassionate treatment of workers, and cooperation with its membership. The future, we hope, will allow the Coop to realize those ideals better than it has in recent years...
...term off-topic may have been coined by a condescending purist, but now the apostate sect, like up-and-coming Fauvists, revels in the name. Bill Smith, a natty, placid Harvard freshman and Kidd's teammate, suggests a continuing enmity between the offs and the ons. "Off-topic debaters," he explains, "tend to despise on-topic, because most of us were on-topic in high school. I was, for a year and a half. It's very, very intense." Burned out at 18, they seek refuge in the unruly rumble of off-topic. "Sometimes," says Sanford Cohen...
...rule of a political warlord who demands that they pay tribute by giving him votes and taxes. The guerrillas often come from the same towns. Some 200 teachers, frequent objects of suspicion because of their close contact with the peasantry, have been assassinated from these and other seemingly placid villages...
Gretzky is so cordial, one gets the impression he wants to be better than the sometimes fractious Orr even off the ice, to handle it all as well as the always placid Howe. Gordie is to Gretzky what Brooklyn Dodger Gil Hodges was to Los Angeles Dodger Steve Garvey, a giant he happened upon as a child and who never disappointed either the boy or the man. "Sometimes," Gretzky says, "I think it would be nice just to play the game, take off the equipment and go home. It's embarrassing to talk about records. But then I think...
...they do have talent. Lots of it. In fact, they actually did beat the Russians once. Well, at least one of them did. Mike Kruzione, of Lake Placid and Boston University fame plays with the team on occasion, including last year's 9-5 loss to the Crimson. No one knows for sure whether the Olympian will be back tomorrow to average last year's defeat but at least Flynn said, "There's a very good chance...