Word: placidness
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...looks now like the new mayor's first few months in office will be placid. Two potentially bitter strikes, involving firemen and hospital workers, have been settled, and Beame will not inherit the bitterness left over from the conflict, which will trail Lindsay out of the office. The schools seem to be in better shape than they have been in a number of years, and local politicians have already convinced the public that the state is the cause of an imminent increase in subway fares. The subway crisis provides Beame with a popular position on a vital issue which...
...four major characters you see the mangled self-images before they've hardened into permanent, placid cripples. In their own unconscious way they're all fighting for their freedom. But they are cornered rats, and Mean Streets gives us the animal's final moves--the disbelieving laugh, the snarl, and the last gasp of panic...
...weeks his placid Korean countenance seemed to be everywhere New Yorkers looked: on commuter train posters, in full-page newspaper ads, in a flurry of broadsides handed out by earnest young men and women on the sidewalks of Manhattan. The message of his coming was brief: CHRISTIANITY IN CRISIS. NEW HOPE. REV. SUN MYUNG MOON. Last week, in Carnegie Hall, the Rev. Moon finally appeared in person to begin a four-month, 21-city "Day of Hope" tour of the U.S. His goal: nothing less than the unification of all mankind. His credentials: though Moon himself never quite claims...
...campaign proved to be the most acrimonious in Sweden's generally placid political history. Palme accused his enemies of such dirty tricks as circulating anonymous letters claiming that he is subject to wild temper tantrums and has received electric shock treatments in mental hospitals: Coalition spokesmen, for their part, were angered by Palme's inflammatory speechmaking...
Scant Result. If that happens, Cambodia will have little to show for the hardships it suffered after the U.S. extended the war into the once placid Cambodian countryside...