Word: meek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schumacher has great admiration for what she calls "the democracy in American education." In this country, she finds the relationship between teacher and student far more healthy and constructive than in Europe. "American teachers have much more respect for the student. Students don't learn to be meek and mousey: they're invited to speak up. In Germany, the teacher is the master, the pupil is a little 'pimpf'. The master-servant relationship in the German school and family was the Hitler regime on a small scale, a preparation...
Everybody in the U.S. hasn't got a TV set-not by a long shot. Then why have TV sales slowed down? Chicago TV manufacturer John Meek turned his researchers loose in Washington, D.C., and got some depressing news. Nonowners cheerfully reported that they watch television an average of twelve hours a week in the homes of friends, and therefore have no very strong incentive...
...Snayfooo. When it came time to press Labor's gentle censure, Socialist Philip Noel-Baker was so meek & mild that Churchill rumbled: "I can hardly see a point of difference between us except that he has to do his best to move a vote of censure." The Laborite move was really an attempt to censure the U.S., said Churchill. He read from Secretary of State Dean Acheson's closed-door explanation to members of the House: "It is only as the result of what in the U.S. is known as a 'snafu'"-Churchill rolled the unfamiliar...
Chip & Old Block. In Des Moines, divorce suits charging cruelty were filed at the same time, by the same attorney, against Victor Meek and his son Phillip Meek...
...species. Among the lower orders, only such "gentle" animals as doves and hares, he says, are guilty of the same unfeeling cruelty. The wolf, a popular symbol of ferocious wickedness, is psychologically incapable of killing his most hated rival if the rival bares his neck in meek submission...