Word: placido
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...midnight the lights in the village flickered out. At the tavern, irritated cardplayers lit candles, went on with their game. Suddenly, a distant, muffled roar was heard. To woodcutters in the mountains, it sounded like a "great stampede." To one villager, the noise resembled "a continuous dynamite blast." Father Placido went worriedly into the street, as did the electrician and some of the men from the tavern...
Nunc iterum ver et ardor adest; Musae et Venus placido de caelo Cantabrigiam descenderunt; histriones classici foriter vigescunt. Sed quales Musae nobis? Plautinae? Et qualis Venus? Secunda? Immo edepol severae Musae tragoediae quibus tantum borribiles irae et mortes pallidae placent. Et non Venus benigna inter nos incedit sed illa Venus dirissima quae tantummodo incastos ritus saeviter fovet. O collegium Harvardianum, quale exemplum maestissimum ver et Venus tibi protulit! Ubinam gentium sunt Nymphae Gratiaeque decentes? Cur nihil nisi membra disiecta? Nam hac in Senecae fabula Ration Stoica nihil potest, et ubique regnat Furor et Cupido ct Caedesl Phaedra enim cui voluptas...
...anti-Communist Sicily, many Reds, fellow travelers and some innocent labor leaders had been ambushed and killed. Last month, an obscure village labor organizer called Placido Rizzotto disappeared. Last week, Communist Labor Boss Di Vittorio chose to make a national issue of Rizzotto, threatened a general strike unless he turned up by this week...