Word: placidness
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...green-uniformed rebel band took over the small mining town of Batuarang, just north of the placid Malayan capital of Kuala Lumpur. While some of the rebels pinned the police to their barracks with heavy automatic fire, others expertly sabotaged the coal mine-the only one operating in all Malaya. Shooting up a school bus and murdering a foreman and four workers, 37 of the bandits, including a teen-age girl, swept down on the railway station and held up an incoming train. The rebel leader emptied the railroad cash box, snapped: "We only want European property. We are going...
...Revenge." One morning last week, while Roy was off visiting friends in Scotland, the Farran family began its placid daily routine. Keith and Rex, who had refused to get up for breakfast, stayed in the house, while the others walked down the lane, amid spring blossoms and green shrubs, on their way to work. They met the postwoman, who said: "Nothing much for you this morning. Just a parcel." Said Mrs. Farran: "One of the boys will take...
...Placid Cats. Drs. Philip Bard and Vernon B. Mountcastle of Johns Hopkins told of experiments with half-brained cats. Some years ago they discovered that when its whole forebrain was removed, a cat became uncontrollably ferocious, reacting with outrage to the slightest provocation. Apparently the lower brain, the seat of anger, was dominating the cat in the absence of the forebrain...
Recently the doctors removed only certain parts of restraining forebrains. With the neocortex cut out, the cats became utterly placid. Nothing would get them mad. Even when their tails were burned, they responded only with gentle, tolerant spitting. The peacemaking parts of the forebrain were in complete control...
...author (Curson: The Last Phase, The Congress of Vienna) and ex-diplomat, was a good friend of Winston Churchill, and a recent Labor convert. He campaigned on a well-bred, sporting level, emphasizing his air of mild reasonableness by saying: "I doubt whether Solomon Eagles* himself could arouse this placid community to a sense of urgency and passion...