Word: placidness
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...cheese sandwich costs $3.50 in Lake Placid, N.Y. But since you can't eat snow, you consume and the marathon begins. You consume Lake Placid, the village, buying the food and the buttons and the stickers and the hats and the scarves. Everything that is officially Olympic costs $5. Two very high students walk down Main Street shouting, "You're walking on an Official Olympic Sidewalk, that'll be $5 please," and everyone laughs with them, like theirs is a big in-joke. Laughter fills the streets all the time in Lake Placid...
Just a little past Albany, civilization disappears for good, except for the HoJos. The length of the trip to Lake Placid is overrated--it's really just five or six hours long--but in some ways it's a harbinger of the lines to come and the waiting. But it was warmer waiting...
They did. The young Americans stunned the hockey world last night and took a giant step towards this country's first Olympic gold medal in the sport since 1960 by upsetting the more experienced Soviets, 4-3, in an emotion-filled contest in Lake Placid last night...
...three days at the Lake Placid Olympics I knew he was right--it is all politics...
...gold medal for the biathlon, the cheering once again was unrestrained. Even across the town--where the people waiting for buses could see a the fireworks fill the sky but only hear strains of the National Anthems--cheers overpowered the cold, and a the politics that blanketed Lake, Placid like anthin coat of ice, melted, if only for a moment...