Word: meek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While Oswald appeared to most of those who knew him as a meek and harmless person," says the Commission, "he sometimes imagined himself as 'the Commander' and, apparently seriously, as a political prophet?a man who said that after 20 years he would be prime minister. His wife testified that he compared himself with great leaders of history. Such ideas of grandeur were apparently accompanied by notions of oppression. He had a great hostility toward his environment, whatever it happened to be, which he expressed in striking and sometimes violent acts long before the assassination...
...last week a packed audience at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop listened raptly as slim, meek Astrud Gilberto, 24, stood before a microphone and sang The Girl from Ipanema, in a voice so soft and introverted that it barely cut the smoke. Behind her, Stan Getz wove wispy filigrees on his tenor sax to produce the most infectious "new sound" around-the bossa nova nova...
...week's end, with all counties still not heard from, the topless suit remained a most delicate issue. As with Fanny Hill, the meek trembled while the smart set shrugged. English Channel Swimmer Florence Chadwick got practical and confused things even more. "I'm too modest to wear a topless suit," said she, "but it actually would be more comfortable. It would be even more comfortable to swim without the bot tom as well...
...hardly figures to last. Come fall, golf's fearsome twosome will undoubtedly have fat bankrolls again. But for the moment at least, the meek were inheriting the earth. Paul Harney, 34, who quit the pro tour last year because "my nerves can't take it any more," returned from retirement just long enough to win $7,500 in the Los Angeles Open. Art Wall, who had not won a tournament since 1960, collected the $4,000 big money at San Diego. "Champagne Tony" Lema, 29, who hardly qualifies as a hardship case ($67,112 last year...
...simply coils, sometimes slackly, sometimes snugly, around an event: a dance marathon. But it clings to an abiding vision that life is a grueling test, rather like 3,000 hours on a dance marathon floor, and that the prizes do not necessarily go to the strong or the meek, but to those who gallantly or stubbornly endure...