Word: placidness
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...from Gravity. The best way to visualize space in terms of astronavigation is to think of it as a placid lake with a few widely separated whirlpools in its mirror surface. These sucking danger spots are the gravitational fields around the sun and its satellites. The cardinal principle of astronavigation is to keep far away from gravitational maelstroms. Unfortunately for the space men, their ships must set sail from the middle of one: the strong gravitational field that surrounds the earth...
...trip from Callao to Balboa, Panama, through the Canal to Colon proved eventless. The Carribean, then in the middle of the September hurrican season, was placid. The boat's first stop was Key West, then Miami. Here they had their first run-in with two American institutions: the press and tumbling bureacracy...
Last night, after 149 days of violent storm and placid calm, the Miru motored to its berth in the lower Charles River. Brigadier General James S. Simmons, dean of the School of Public Health, welcomed his student to Boston. Another person who shook Davis' hand was an old longshoreman, who left his job last night just to meet the New Zealander. He said he once sailed the South Pacific in mid-winter and knows "the courage it takes...
Dudley Richards, figure skating star and Lowell House junior, returns today from Lake Placid where he has been performing since Friday in the General Motors Ice Show...
...patients, and even those who are discharged from the hospital, the operation may be too "successful.'" Free from anxiety, they may become, instead, irresponsible, tactless, indolent. They will probably have trouble making up their minds, and may hear voices or echoes. Worse than that, some may regress into placid animals, helpless for the rest of their lives...