Word: meekest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greatly appreciated the July 7 article on New York City's Cop Kennedy. Reared under strong disciplinarians and schooled under the meekest of socio-individual reformers, I see no antagonism between the two. The strong arm needs a big heart. It is only when one is greatly out of proportion to the other that hateful mastery or loveless nonrestraint occurs. Ministers and social workers in New York should warmly appreciate a policeman like Kennedy...
...northwest area of Britain's National Association of Schoolmasters could scarcely contain themselves as the speaker from Lancaster ripped into the Minister of Education. Sir David Eccles, said the speaker, "has achieved the impossible. Alone and unaided and with consummate skill and genius, he has driven the meekest, mildest, most long-suffering body of men and women in the Western Hemisphere to revolt." The men and women in question were the schoolteachers of Britain. Their mood had never been more surly...