Both Uses of
placid
in
In Cold Blood
- A golf course"), the newcomer to Garden City, once he has adjusted to the nightly after eight silence of Main Street, discovers much to support the defensive boastings of the citizenry: a well run public library, a competent daily newspaper, green-lawned and shady squares here and there, placid residential streets where animals and children are safe to run free, a big, rambling park complete with a small menagerie ("See the Polar Bears!"†
Chpt 1placid = calm and not easily excited
- Worse, when the daughter hung up, she did not quench the old woman's curiosity; instead, she placidly drank her coffee, went to her desk, and began to postmark a pile of letters.†
Chpt 1 *placidly = calmly