Word: meek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back came a meek refusal from Football Coach Bud Wilkinson, the President's consultant on physical fitness: "This chal lenge is appreciated, but it would be most difficult to assemble here a pickup team that would offer any challenge at all to such a redoubtable group as yours." Last week, when the British winkers met the likes of S. J. Perelman and Stage Director-Producpr Mike Ellis in Bucks County, there was a hint of opposition. Perelman lost with a debonair, hand-in-pocket flair; Ellis' keen squidging eye and steady wrist made...
...then they had yelled themselves hoarse and thrown enough rocks at the Communists to satisfy even West Berlin's city fathers that some anniversaries call for more than meditation and three meek minutes of silence...
...undergraduate with a compliant partner. "All luxuries are overused," she said, "but sexual immorality is sometimes the least dangerous." She was also famed as hotel-dom's Robin Hood, from her habit of loading penurious guests' bills onto the richest resident, who for years was a meek, abstemious millionaire she called Froggy...
Davidson, who is a rather modest and unassuming person, seems a little embarrassed by the sizeable proportions of some of his most successful efforts. But he has pursued his ideas with a dedicated fervor that could hardly be considered meek...
Captain Mark Mullin, Rick DeLone, and Ted Bailey won their events against strong opposition in the Heptagonal Games Saturday at Hanover, but the varsity track team as a whole was considerably less successful. The Crimson, expected to battle it out with Yale for the team title, settled for a meek third-place finish with 43 1/2 points, ten behind the Elis and five in back of Army...