Word: meek
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Kelly was no meek back-room brain. As former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, he was described by colleagues as a "consummate professional," tough enough to grind down Iraqis who tried to stymie the inspections. Was he hiding something or being pressured to? Or, given what colleagues describe as his ironclad commitment to telling the truth, did he regret what he had told the BBC or the committee? Or was he simply the victim of crippling depression? Blair, asking for "respect and restraint," announced a high-level judicial inquiry into Kelly's death, as the rest of the country awaited...
...only after an hour of broken dialogue, explanations that I had never seen the Pope and a coyness I’d been saving for just such an occasion that I won their affection, embodied within a meek (that’s one value these Papists had down) offering of stock and chivas...
DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK-ARTS TEACHER: A position at Hogwarts with an extremely high turnover rate. This year it's Professor Quirrell, a meek, inoffensive man with a stutter--and a surprising dark side...
Having contented himself with the role of sixth man for three years, Merchant was universally recognized as one of those people due to inherit the earth. But there was nothing meek about his last-ever game against Princeton, when Merchant exploded for a game-high 22 points, his two three-pointers in the final minute singlehandedly bringing Harvard within a basket of toppling the Tigers...
...foolish enough to believe that all Iraqi soldiers will be so meek. One day last week a platoon with the 101st Airborne spent the morning learning how to treat massive chest wounds. But even as the soldiers were taught the grim procedures for stopping acute blood loss--apply a tourniquet first; administer fluids afterward--they suffered more from the anxious tedium of waiting for war. Some of the guys got into a separation-of-church-and-state debate; others complained about missing March Madness; some looked forward to this week, when the ammunition arrives and live-fire training begins...