Word: meek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alta Cossart Lawson, a ferocious doyenne of Vincentown, N.J., returns now and then-they say-to stalk up and down -in front of the ruin of her mansion, in extirpation of the night she forced her drunken, demented son to lop off the head of his meek little wife with an ax. ¶ Lettitia Dalton, the vain and vicious wife of a rich Virginia planter, was quite a dame. One night she sent her sister Caro to an old greenhouse on her York River plantation to get some grapes. Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower...
...commenting on the move, Meek observed that "companies which make and sell consumer goods seem to be looking today for employees who can give them the woman's point of view...
...Dudley Meek, director of the program, Franklin E. Folts, professor of Industrial Management at the Business School, and Radcliffe Dean of Instruction Wilam A. Kerby-Miller are the other members of the board...
...buzzing, good-humored crowd gathered Sunday night in front of Jordan hall where Howard Fast and Samuel P. Scars, men of opposite political convictions, were scheduled to speak. Three meek, middle-aged women did a brisk business, distributing pamphlets to those waiting for the doors to open. Their handouts consisted of clippings from the American Mercury and the New Bedford Standard-Times...
...mysteriously imprisoned in the late 1930s, some say for making indiscreet remarks about the Stalinist regime. Babel had worked as a Bolshevik propagandist, been a member of the Cheka. and ridden with Budenny's Red Cossack cavalry as a supply officer in the Polish campaign of 1920. The meek intellectual with "spectacles on [his] nose and autumn in [his] heart" as Babel described himself, spent the young manhood of his life honing his squeamish conscience on "the simplest of proficiencies -the ability to kill my fellow...