Word: meek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the votes were counted in Illinois' primary elections last week, the nominees for the U.S. Senate were overflowing with diplomacy. Said Senator Paul Douglas, unopposed in the Democratic primary: "I'll wage my campaign without malice, and in good temper." Said Joseph T. Meek, the Chicago Tribune-supported candidate who beat eight other Republicans: "It's always been 'Paul' and 'Joe' between...
...Meek little Jimmy Alcock, 54, was always a man to avoid trouble. But trouble sought him out at the Lancashire aircraft works, where he was a $25-a-week semiskilled laborer. When Britain's engineering (i.e., machinists') unions called a nationwide one-day "token" strike, Jimmy wondered what to do. He did not be long to the engineering union, and his own General and Municipal Workers union was not involved in the strike. He asked his union what to do. He was told to go to work as usual, and Jimmy did. He was the only...
Promptly from Mr. Bertram Brown came this reply: I don't care about Murillo And Da Vinci leaves me cold; I don't go for Dufy's paintings Done in timid strokes or bold -// Giotto was neurotic, If Utrillo was too meek, I remain quite unaffected As to each of them's technique...
...ahead and annihilate each other; maybe the meek will finally get their chance to inherit the earth...
...with three other priests and a nun for "espionage, anti-state propaganda and diversionary activities." The Communists had kept him two years in prison to teach him his lines. Yes, said the dead, obedient voice, he had worked secretly with the Nazis during the occupation to keep the people "meek and cooperative." He had helped American officials to "prepare a new war." Ex-U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane had paid him off for his espionage with a gold fountain pen and large sums of money...