Word: placidness
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...decisive sea battles of history was fought last week in the placid waters between Java and Borneo. It was the naval battle for Java. It was a battle for the last bulwark against Japanese conquest of the Indies, a battle for the Southwest Pacific, a battle for a great chunk of the world's seas and sea power. It was a battle fought too late and in the wrong place, lost before it began...
...news editors, on whom the Japanese pulled one of the smartest publicity stunts in history last week (see p. 55), were not noticeably reproached for it in their own columns. On the radio, which has no headlines to worry about, they were. Said CBS's placid Bill Shirer...
Probably the only international sport event that will be held in the U.S. this year took place last week at Lake Placid, N.Y. between ten lady Kanonen representing the U.S. and Canada...
Last week thousands of U.S. ski fans crammed the sidelines at Lake Placid's Rim Rock run. Like most downhill meets, the races were divided into two sections: the straight-down (popularly called the downhill) and the slalom,* a zigzag course defined by pairs of flags which skiers must thread...
...gates"-including hair-raising hairpin turns, flushes (S curves) and right-angle elbows-Miss Shaw was clocked in the breath-taking time of i min. 44.4 sec. On the same f-mile slalom course earlier in the day, ten top-flight men skiers had competed in Lake Placid's annual Washington's Birthday ski meet. Only three of them had chalked up better time than Miss Shaw's (winning time...