Word: placidness
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...conversation, white leaders cannot help but suggest the kind of things they fear. "We don't like the idea of you people coming in here to destroy the quiet, placid life we all enjoy," one man told my Negro partner and I in the midst of a relatively calm discussion. "What you people don't seem to understand is that the whole thing is really a matter of choice. I don't choose to live in your people's world, and they dont choose to live in mine...
They were, of course, the characters whose happy problems and placid turmoil filled six-part serials during the great days of the women's, magazines. Their most important characteristic was, as the millions of matron readers knew, and as the writers and editors knew they knew, that the problems and turmoil did not really matter. If you cut into a Brick or a Jeremy (and there was constant cutting; men and children in the serials were fatally susceptible to plot-advancing ailments), you found only a dense, featureless white substance, like the inside of a potato. Spinal meningitis...
...enthusiasm: since Palmer, a New Zealand-born corporation lawyer, joined Ready Mixed as a director in 1945, the company has expanded into eight foreign countries, now controls 186 concrete plants, 40 quarries and a Malayan tin mine. Last year Ready Mixed doubled its profit to $2,400,000. Placid Chairman Palmer, who meticulously limits himself to an eight-hour workday and refuses to take papers home, intends to maintain the same headlong expansion into any area "where labor is costly...
...starting flag fell prematurely in the annual Miami-to-Nassau powerboat race, sent speedboats scuttling wildly across each other's wakes, resulted in a collision between a Coast Guard patrol boat and a 40-ft. cruiser. For once the choppy ocean course was placid and the race went to the swift, not the sturdy. The winner: Aokone, a light 25-ft. runabout powered by twin 280-h.p. Mercury engines and skippered by Florida's John Bakos. Aokone covered the 182-mile distance in a record 3 hr. 42 min. 20 sec., at an average speed of 49 m.p.h...
After the long, perilous winter, spring finally arrived in West Berlin last week. Billowing sails dotted the placid Wannsee; plump matrons nibbled pastry in the sun at open-air cafés along the broad Kurfürstendamm; amidst budding willows in the Grunewald forest, lovers strolled. Even the Russians were infected with spring fever: at the Soviet war memorial just inside WTest Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate, the two old T-34 tanks on permanent display were given a coat of bright green paint by a crew of Red army soldiers...