Word: meek
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...Meek young Alfred, though, seemed to lack some of his father's high talent for making trouble. The father, refusing to report for induction in 1917, successfully eluded the Army until 1920, when he was discovered crouched in a window seat at his mother's mansion. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll (so named, his mother snappishly explained, because President "Cleveland was a draft-dodger . . . and I expect my Grover to be one of the Presidents of the United States"*) was sentenced to five years in prison. He promptly persuaded a gullible major to let him out to pick...
...presidential advocate. Compromise candidates were discussed: Wyoming's New Dealing O'Mahoney, 66, sharp and shrewd but in poor health; New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, 55, a faithful party man but solidly opposed to Mr. Truman on the Brannan Plan; Arizona's Ernest McFarland, 56, meek and mild and notably neutral...
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...smooth combination of comedy and pathos, romance and excitement, plus some pleasant Crosby crooning (notably, Let's Bake a Sunshine Cake). Like all Capra pictures, it is also calculated to delight the largest possible audience by taking potshots at the greedy and the pompous, while letting the meek inherit the earth...
...David Lilienthal because Lilienthal refused to load TVA with McKellar patronage, yelped that ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman ought to resign for the good of the country. A Senator longer than any of his colleagues (33 years), Kenneth McKellar, hell-raiser in committee and on the floor, has long been the meek and humble stooge of Tennessee's E. H. ("Boss") Crump...