Word: meekest
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...certain urge. He longs for one thing--to strike out onto the open road, of course. A privileged bourgeois Few mount bicycles, but the average Many have naught but a narrow strip of river bank, a muddy line of turf, to satisfy their longing. Unorganized as the meekest sweated dressmakers, they grope blindly and independently, without help and mutual encouragement...
True extent of the suppression of the German people, of their obsession with being downtrodden, remains invisible until they are given even the slightest jot of authority. Meekest lambs in submission become vindictive tomcats in office. Last week Hermann Göring took official and stern notice of this phenomenon, even more apparent since war work has added many a new name to the official rolls, in a proclamation on bureaucracy...
Horton is the master of simplicity, credulity, and timidness in all his parts but his combination of the trio in "His Night Out" seems to surpass many of his previous efforts. As a pill-eating hypochondriac who buys medicine for a chain of drug stores, Homer is the meekest soul imaginable. But this same meekness and utterly unsophisticated manner makes him one of the most hilarious when he undergoes a third degree and thinks he is playing "Twenty Questions" with the police force...
...Nero Jr., King, oldest and toughest lions in his troupe. He drove them into the arena, prodded them to fury. Then he sent Sammy in. Sammy, still feeling tough, made a pass at Leo. The brothers closed in. That night Sammy, licking a dozen bites and scratches, was the meekest animal...
Because one church was not enough to honor the meekest of medieval men, the gothic builders of Assisi built two churches to St. Francis, one on top of the other. Princess Giovanna decreed last week that her marriage should take place not in the larger, airier upper church, but in the lower, holier one beneath, whose high altar covers the saint's tomb...