Word: placidness
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...placid, Lilliputian Persian Gulf sheikdom of Sharjah was unexpectedly disturbed last week by the thud of hand grenades and the rattle of rifle fire. Former Sheik Saqr bin Sultan, deposed in 1965 in a peaceful coup, had returned from exile in Cairo. With two truckloads of Bedouins, he stormed Sharjah's blue-and-white palace in an attempt to overthrow his ruling cousin Sheik Khalid bin Mohammed. In a brief battle with tribesmen loyal to Khalid, Saqr was captured. But Sheik Khalid was trapped and murdered before he could be rescued...
...period of internal strife. France, which has seen more such conflict than most countries, has made amnesty almost a habit; the latest example occurred in 1968 when right-wing opponents of Charles de Gaulle's Algerian policy were forgiven their earlier campaign of terror. Britain, with a more placid history, has had less reason to grant amnesty; it did so, however, after its civil war in the 17th century, after the Restoration of Charles II a few years later, and again in the 18th century to those who took part in the second Jacobite rebellion...
...main thing we've learned," says Borah. ' is not to believe automatically that the so-called experts know what they're talking about." Their latest target: a proposed Mississippi River bridge that they contend would dump an impossible traffic load onto the city's placid uptown streets...
Butting up against the heel of the Appalachian Mountains near Anniston, Ala., Fort McClellan appears to be the most placid of military bases. It is pastorally appointed with sweeping greensward, tall stands of shortleaf pine and pleasing arrangements of whitewashed command buildings fronted by old-fashioned verandas. It is a small post, with slightly more than 5,000 people. But McClellan is unique in that 2,000 of those are WACs; it is the largest WAC base in the world. What is more, 20% of the WACs are black. More than any other single factor, that probably accounts...
...will be calm and placid in the White House, but gallons of blood will continue to flow. The moans of the bereaved and of the maimed will not be silenced...