Word: meek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...score knockout victories again." Free traders, he says, "lack backbone." Joseph Biden uses the America's Cup races as a metaphor for the nation's standing, then declares, "To say we want to compete means we are already losing. I want to win!" Paul Simon attempts to offset his meek image with the mantra "We need someone with the courage to do the tough things...
Liman rather sympathetically led North into nearly conceding that his superiors had abandoned him when all the secrecy was punctured -- which pushed the Marine officer into the difficult spot of trying to avoid portraying his bosses as either a willful part of a cover-up or too meek to defend their policy convictions. North had his most arduous time trying to justify the creation of Casey's covert "slush fund" that not even the President need be told about. (Some of the proposed uses were for U.S.-Israeli operations that North explained in a closed session...
There was no racism involved in the verdict. There was only a notice to people who prey on those of us who appear to be meek that we are sick of being victims. Would Goetz have been less threatened if the toughs who demanded money from him were white? No. The fact is that both blacks and whites who want to feel safe in public areas applaud the verdict...
...much they despise it. They are evidently persuaded that the administration is bluffing and lacks the courage of its proclaimed convictions; and, alas, the administration continually proves them right. Though university officials bravely tilt at distant windmills like the Moral Majority and Accuracy in Acadmia, they are curiously meek when it comes to the barbarian within. Their pious hand-wringing and declarations of high moral principle are unfortunately just puffed-up cowardice. With such sterling examples of character to inspire them, it's little wonder that a few students decide to behave like hoodlums. John Harper GSAS, Department of Government
...contemplative, the complexities rich. A KGB colonel (Sam Neill) turns out to be one of the movie's most articulate and charming characters. And, despite the anti-Communist theme, the film is a subtle refutation of Reagan-era optimism. These Americans, after all, are not can-do patriots but meek, dispirited folks who simply want to get along. "Just surviving," says Devin's sister (Christine Lahti). "No heroics, no strength of character, not even dignity...