Word: placidness
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Bevin leads a rather lonely life with his placid, greyish wife Florence, usually stays at a small, homelike flat on the top floor of the Foreign Office. He is rabidly jealous of his privacy and coldly forbidding toward most reporters. Confided one London correspondent last week: "The only way to get him is to call the Foreign Office switchboard and say in a firm voice: 'The flat, please...
Fifteen years ago America's 75 ski clubs counted a mere 3,500 members-a cult of shoptalking zealots ("I schussed the slope, tried a stem christie, made a sitzmark"). After the 1932 winter Olympics at Lake Placid came the avalanche: in 1940-41, some 2,000,000 U.S. skiers spent about $200,000,000 to twist ankles and chap cheeks...
Ever since V-J day, U.S. and Canadian snowspots have been preparing for their biggest winter yet. At Stowe, Vt., over 100 miles of ski runs were bulldozed into shape. At Placid, famed Skimeister Hannes Schneider designed for Wh iteface a facelifting calculated to make it a ski heaven for tyro or expert. It was the same story at other ski centers-at Mont Tremblant in the Laurentians, Mt. Hood in Oregon, Mt. Baker in Washington, Alta in Utah...
Early in the evening, as he steered his home-made telescope methodically across the western sky, Clarence Friend noted a bright streak disrupting the usually placid constellation Corona. Friend knew that he had spotted a comet, one of the mavericks of the solar system. He also knew what to do about it. Quickly figuring the ascension, declination and magnitude of his find, he rushed the news by time-dated telegram to Harvard University Observatory, the astronomic clearing house for the western hemisphere. The observation was promptly confirmed...
...confinement. High blood pressure caught up with her in earnest when her husband lost her savings in a bad business deal. At 45 three years after the doctors heard her story, she had accepted the fact that death confronted her any day (probably by a heart attack), and was "placid" and superficially contented...