Word: placidness
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...children of atonality and jazz. Renaissance music may seem uniformly placid and therefore boring. Dissonance creates the tension that propels music, but sounds that once demanded resolution seem common and consonant...
...arcane and specialized corner of Wall Street, the bond market is usually a place where corporations can count on raising enormous sums of money -$12 billion in just the first three months of this year-with little fuss. But recently the market has been anything but placid. Prices have been dropping so fast, interest rates rising so rapidly and bonds going unsold in such numbers that some veteran traders say that the market is "in disarray...
...tingle in his backbone, a rasping ominous sound that grew and grabbed his ears and shrieked Wicker was petrified with fear even after he saw that it was only a column of tanks on maneuvers screeching through town, because it was his first glimpse of a world beyond his placid home--a world that could kill and maim and dismember, in fact, make an industry...
...companies argue that they need a better shake in order to pay for their huge development expenses. Exploration and drilling costs are running five times what they are in the placid blue of the Persian Gulf. One reason: the treasure is deep. Oilmen must drop their rigging 400 to 600 ft. beneath turbulent waves then drill another 8,000 to 12,000 ft. beneath the sea floor (see diagram). And North Sea weather is worse than bleak. Last month a crew member on a British Petroleum rig was swept into the sea in an icy storm; his death...
...introduced Restic, who stood and said earnestly, "This [Yale] is the best football team I've played against since I've been at Harvard, without a doubt. By far." Matthews rested his chin in his left hand, gazing at his coach. It was hard to move behind Restic's placid look and guess what he was thinking. Was he worried about the Yale game? Harvard had bumbled away last Saturday's Brown game, and would have to beat undefeated Yale to share the Ivy championship. A piece of the Ivy title was important to Restic, and important to Matthews...