Word: placidness
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...life, in approximate order, are chores, church and football. White-faced cattle graze on Pflugerville's gently rolling farms, and snowy cotton flourishes in the rich Blacklands soil. On the Sabbath, almost the whole town turns out at the Lutheran church. But Friday is football day, and then placid Pflugerville twangs with tension. Each time the high school's Pflugerville Panthers take the field, they carry with them the winningest record in schoolboy football. In 52 straight games, stretching back to 1957, Pflugerville High is unbeaten and untied...
...Edgar S. Brown Jr., executive director of the Commission of Worship for the Lutheran Church in America. "It's a handy thing to have around in time of trouble." Other clerical skeptics argue that their congregations have lost the art of praying; worship, they say, has become placid and mechanical-as if a boxer were absently crossing himself before each round of a fight...
...made it a personal triumph. With BMEWS, he proved that he could handle touchy and cost-conscious subcontractors, that he knew how to keep materials moving, that he dared to talk up to superiors at home while keeping subordinates happy on the job. Easygoing engineers in search of placid lives had already learned to avoid
...second floor of the bank here. Most of its members are professional men who arrive promptly for meetings, dispatch their business efficiently and return to their comfortable suburbana homes. Just now, the Commerce's main item of business is the publication of a small brochure describing the placid Luxuriousness of life here in Kent Country...
...WORLD). Then the President rushed off to receive a visitor about whom he was openly curious: Laos Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma, the man whose inertia in the face of the Communists has been the despair of U.S. policy planning for two years. The President found the placid Prince looking far younger than his 60 years, and, if no minds were changed on either side, the U.S. did announce that it will remove its last troops from neighboring Thailand...