Word: placidness
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...Since January, freight rates have dropped to their lowest levels in 14 years, sending many shipowners scrambling just to keep even with loan payments on their vessels. Off Piraeus, 250 merchant ships lie at anchor, mute testimony to the inability of their owners to find cargoes. Similar scenes of placid but unintended idleness can be found at anchorages throughout Europe...
...Then last week a farm hand working on a nearby ranch spotted a suspicious-looking mound. The sheriff's men went back to work and quickly came up with a second corpse. That touched off a thorough search of the orchard country around Yuba City, Calif., a normally placid town (pop. 13,986) on the Feather River 45 miles north of Sacramento. Using shovels and finally a tractor with a scoop, the deputies turned up body after body; by late last week, continuing a crescendo of horror, they had found 21 bodies-mostly of middle-aged white itinerant farm...
...went Saturday morning on the placid Severn River near Annapolis, as the pendulum of intercollegiate rowing swung towards an inspired Navy crew, which captured its first Adams Cup in ten years by beating Harvard by half a boat length and Penn by a full...
...past, the election of the president of the Brandeis University Alumni Association (BUAA) has been a placid, non-controversial event, but it is anything but calm this year...
...otherwise placid City Council meeting last night dealing primarily with the Cambridge housing problem, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci got another chance to play his favorite role of people's protector with the customary gusto...