Word: placidness
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Perched atop placid howdah elephants and shaded by parasols, the royal guests lounged lazily in the hot jungle sun. Bar elephants circulated busily; from their backs, servants dispensed whisky, beer, martinis and gin-and-orange. Only the impatient tiger was uncomfortable. Queen Elizabeth refused to handle a gun, confined her shooting to a 16-mm. movie camera. The honor of being the "invited gun" was to have gone to Prince Philip, who during the royal family's tour of India and Pakistan has potted hundreds of duck and partridge, plus one sizable tiger, has been dubbed "the grim reaper...
Behind a rather placid-seeming, professorial surface, Walter Heller seethes with drive and energy. In 1955, working on economic messages and policy papers for Governor Freeman atop a heavy academic load, Heller developed a stubborn case of rheumatic fever. Hospitalized for six months, he had a dictating machine set up beside his bed and kept right on working. He still takes a penicillin pill every morning to prevent a recurrence. For recreation back home in Minnesota, Heller used to go into the backyard and chop firewood for hours...
...Scooting down Lake Placid's icy, one-mile Olympic run at disaster-begging speed, Italy's Eugenio Monti piloted his bobsled to its fifth straight world two-man title, flashed past the finish line so fast on his last effort (a world-record 1 min. 9.22 sec.) that the sled overshot the braking area, wrapped itself around a tree...
...lives across the street and pretends that the house is a haunted castle. One day the sign is gone, and a contagious whisper races along the sycamore-lined street that the house might as well be haunted. The first Negro family is moving into Sheridan Avenue in the placid Midwest suburb of Courtland Park...
What concerns blunt, balding Dr. Knudsen-and many another U.S. scientist-is that the U.S., already perhaps the loudest nation in the world, is growing still noisier. Ever more numerous jet planes scream overhead, unmuffled trucks roar through city streets, sports cars whine along once placid suburban roads, and missile-age workers are being exposed to the highest and most dangerous noise levels in history. "Noise," says Physicist Knudsen, "is the bane of our existence...