Word: placidness
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...they moved him from London to his aunt's house in Hampshire, he knew he was dying, but still he ordered the secret kept. He was too proud to ask for sympathy. He lay in a room whose windows looked out on a grove of larch trees, with placid fields beyond. His wife stayed with him. Occasionally his thin lips curled back from his long, uneven teeth in a grimace of pain. Once a German airman flew over Oldharn Village and dropped a rack of bombs. One fell within 40 yards of where Chamberlain...
...Lester Adran Mount and Samuel Reback examined him, found him "pleasant, placid and cooperative." Aside from his spells, he was in perfect health, showed "high average general intelligence." Nobody in the Institute had ever seen or read or heard tell of anything like...
...rode down Commercial Street for the last time." It has its twisted characters like Negro Tom Williams, Editor White's friend, who was thought to be dangerous because he talked wildly, but who was just a night owl seeing too much going on under Emporia's placid surface-"just interested in knowing why men strayed and women fell and how the devil kept his fires going...
...very satisfactory from Harvard's point of view, because it showed that the Crimson is once more doing well for itself even though it did start late in the season. It was a success from the spectator's standpoint, too, because the races were close and fast over the placid Henley course...
...result of its showing at Lake Placid, the team was invited to the Williams carnival, and our racers showed their appreciation by beating seven colleges to take the meet...