Word: placidness
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UNDER its cheerful orange-and-white parachutes, Odyssey came down gently in placid, warm, South Pacific waters. The ripples from that splash spread around the globe. For four days a fractured world inured to mass suffering and casual death had found common cause in the struggle to save three lives. The magic and mystery of space exploration, the realization that James Lovell, Fred Haise and John Swigert were not simply three Americans on a scientific mission but also humanity's envoys to the future, had served to bind men and nations in a rare moment of unity...
...center of oil and agriculture, a major aircraft producer (Boeing, Beech, Cessna). It is also Middle America. Blacks make up just 12% of its population; it is only by accident of rotation that the single city commissioner who is black will become its next mayor. Wichita is a "placid" sort of place, says outgoing Mayor Donald Enoch. It is deeply conservative; the town fathers banned a proposed Wichita production of Hair. Chester Lewis, a former regional N.A.A.C.P. director who now practices law in Wichita, observes: "The Silent Majority is what this city is all about...
...become the first American ground-combat unit in South Viet Nam. The Communists were threatening to cut the country in two and the South Vietnamese army was collapsing. But that morning, the grunts in green met only rain, surf and a welcoming force of pretty girls. It was a placid preface to one of the bloodiest chapters in Marine Corps history...
DeMichele has set only one goal for himself this year; "I want to go to the World Series in Omaha." The hockey team didn't make it to Lake Placid, but DeMichele's thinking baseball...
...checking game, Should Clarkson beat B.U., Harvard has only to stay close. then defeat the Terriers Saturday. But if B.U. wins, it will take the greatest effort of the season to send Harvard to the NCAA's. And if Harvard can beat Cornell, it deserves the trip to Lake Placid next week, just as a bonus...