Word: meek
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...Edwards had asked his studio audience a pointless query: "Is there a Mr. Wickel in the house?" The M.C. liked his little joke, repeated it, and in time it became a standard gag line. Then, on November 4, there was a Mr. Wickel in the house: listeners heard a meek response from a Verona, N.J. mechanical engineer named Rudolph J. Wickel. Edwards, rising to the occasion, promptly announced that $1,000 awaited Mr. Wickel's shovel in the Holyoke lot. Mr. Wickel joined the gold rush, but failed to find the money...
Time after time, club owners growled and groused, threatening rebellion. On the few occasions when they failed to turn meek in due course, the Commissioner calmly threatened to tear up his contract...
Like his penguins, anti-Darwinist Gerald Heard believes that the meek do indeed inherit the earth, and that the strong end up as fossils. He also believes that men might live as harmoniously as his penguins if they would learn to contemplate like Quakers and to aspire to extrasensory experience like Brahmin Yogis. Since 1937, Expatriate Heard has been expounding these doctrines from a home in Laguna Beach. Calif...
...summer of 1862, a Union cavalry patrol galloping by the deserted station of Beaver Dam, Va. almost rode down a meek-looking little Confederate scout day dreaming in the sun. In his haversack they found a single, unimportant-looking letter and a newly-published copy of Napoleon's Maxims of War. Unimpressed, they read and destroyed the letter, sent the scout off to jail in Washington...
...Winkle Goes to War (Columbia) is a sentimental tale of a meek, 44-year-old, henpecked, workaday bank clerk suddenly caught up by the seat of his well-shined pants and plunged into the workaday reality of modern...