Word: placidness
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Then, in one fantastic afternoon, Bess and Mary Margaret Truman found their placid way of life irrevocably snatched away. Mrs. Truman sobbed at the news of Franklin Roosevelt's death. She cooked her last meal in the apartment...
From the university seat of Heidelberg, TIME Correspondent Sidney Olson cabled this bucolic picture: "Old Heidelberg today slept in the April sunshine, in a cloud of appleblossoms, as tranquil and placid as the mirror-smooth Neckar River. Here the war seems something far away. On this Sunday, the first after Easter, the people of all the towns in the Neckar Valley were out in force for the great weekly business of churchgoing. The big men were richly dressed in tail coats and high hats, their great stomachs resplendently vested in oyster white or French grey...
...bank of the placid Moskva, close to the Kremlin, a prodigious peacetime project was resumed. The project: the erection of the world's mightiest monument, the Palace of the Soviets, dedicated to Soviet Russia's founding father, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin...
...happy-go-lucky Vermonter and a cocksure Lake Placid Irishman planned a postwar project last week...
First, Merrill ("Mezzie") Barber and Army Lieut. Arthur Devlin proved themselves head & shoulders above the field-five fellow Americans, ten Canadians-in the annual invitation ski jump from Lake Placid's 70-meter Olympic Hill. Off the takeoff, 145-lb. Mezzie Barber, reached for altitude with revolving arms, then leaned forward from the ankles in wind-cutting power dives that carried him 218 and 223 feet. Artie Devlin, leaning more from his hips than ankles, jumped 220 feet on his first ride; but he let the wind get on top of his borrowed skis, made only 197 feet...