The town, placid and twee, betokened a muted identity about as distant from Prussian militarism as could be imagined.

The two young men had been friends since Mrs. Anderson's third-grade class in the placid little town of New Plymouth, about 50 miles west of Boise.

Many government employees are comfortable in Bonn, a placid town where politics and government are the main pursuits.

All day long, residents of this placid old town came to view the scene.

West Point is a poor, placid town; founded in 1789, it is still too small to have its own high school.

The roads around this placid town east of the Okefenokee Swamp are lined with mobile homes.

It is not that Billund, a placid town of 30,000 people in the heart of Denmark, is in any crisis.

The chilling events rattled this normally placid town and left residents trying to make sense of it.

EVERY now and then, it seems, fire returns to remind this usually placid town of the turmoil of the times.

She was born in Lugano, a placid lakeside town on the border with Italy, the only daughter of a hotel owner and a nurse.