Word: placidness
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Belmont Hill, Private School League champion for the past three years, is led by high-scorer Bobby Cleary and Captain John Copeland. Belmont's only defeat this year was in the final round of the Northwood Tournament by Northwood School of Lake Placid, N.Y. Last week they defeated Brooks School...
Gosh, it was good to be in a place where winter was really winter, Vag thought to himself. Back in Cambridge there hadn't been a flake of snow all fall, and Christmas at home had been more like spring. But New Year's at Lake Placid was different, like in the old days further south when the polar ice cap had not started to shrink...
ALFREDO CARDINAL OTTAVIANI, 63, a sturdy, placid expert in canon law, pro-Secretary of the Holy Office and one of the Vatican's leading reactionaries. He is an advocate of Vatican friendship with Franco...
...that the audience can hardly read the signposts of the plot. She is a young Englishwoman (Claire Bloom) who goes to Berlin, 1953, for a visit with her brother (Geoffrey Toone), an officer in the British occupation force. Almost at once she senses dark, hurrying shapes in the outwardly placid life of her sister-in-law (Hildegarde Neff), and soon curiosity tempts her to take a plunge into the shadowy mystery...
...last time Churchill saw Franklin Roosevelt was on board the U.S. cruiser Quincy, in the harbor of Alexandria, after the Yalta Conference. The President seemed "placid and frail," to have only a "slender contact with life." The first time Churchill met Harry Truman was at Potsdam, ten weeks after the V-E day which Roosevelt did not live to see. Truman impressed the British Prime Minister with his "gay, precise, sparkling manner and obvious power of decision...