Word: placid
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...wrestled, India and Indian politics changed along the road. The Indian National Congress, which claimed to represent Indians of every religious community, finally had to admit that Mohamed Ali Jinnah spoke for the Moslems. Left-wing groups left the Congress, Communists led by Puran Chandra Joshi threatened the placid order of the agricultural, home-industrial India which Gandhi strove for. The Congress leadership (since 1941 Gandhi has ruled only from the sidelines) passed more & more to a group of well-to-do conservatives bossed by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel...
...their avowed policies. The third has been well described as a stand-patter. It is honest enough in its way, but its features and editorials more often than not retain a juvenile small-time flavor as if unable to forget the nostalgic picture of Los Angeles in a more placid past. Finally there is a tabloid which, despite a reasonably intelligent and liberal editorial policy, runs repeatedly to the blatant at the expense of more significant coverage...
...snow at Lake Placid, N.Y. was deep and powdery last week, and the temperature was a shivery 3° above zero. At one-minute intervals, the 39 best college skiers in the East struck out crosscountry on their narrow racing skis. Tiny, ski-minded St. Lawrence University won Lake Placid's Langlauf (its skiers finished first & second) and won the tournament as well...
Snowed under by their lack of practice, the Ski team, slid into a seventh place position out of a field of ten on New Year's Day in the College Week competition at Lake Placid...
...blocks north of U.N. and one block from the constant rumble of First Avenue trucks is Manhattan's swank, placid Beekman Place, rimming a bluff over the East River, with a view from Brooklyn to The Bronx. John D. Rockefeller III has an apartment at No. 1. A block away lives Columnist-Entrepreneur Billy Rose, with his wife, Eleanor Holm, Actress Katherine Cornell lives...