Word: meekly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germans before he could do much soldiering. Luck was with him. Because he had been drafted briefly in World War I, Bidault was released by the Nazis in a general parole of World War I veterans. He made his way to Lyon, ostensibly to resume teaching. But instead, the meek-seeming little professor undertook the hazardous life of an underground patriot. He joined a Roman Catholic resistance group named Combat, soon was publicly identified as a resister and had to plunge into hiding, ultimately became known throughout the French Resistance movement for his ability to smooth over differing points...
...fact that Junior is not a muscular fresh-air fiend like himself, but a studious type who collects tropical fish. Junior is convincingly played by Gil Stratton Jr., burr head, droop jaw, horn rims and all. What particularly jars Jack is the knowledge that the son of his meek, pint-sized office bookkeeper is a strapping answer to a football coach's prayer. Yet in program four, after Pop has the bookkeeper's boy underfoot for a weekend, he finds that he much prefers his own chess-playing son, who at least does not eat like a horse...
...Meek, formerly a small-town merchant, is a well-combed, practical Midwestern businessman. He organized the Illinois Federation of Retail Associations in 1935, has been its president ever since. As such, he lobbies for his association's 60,000 retailer members, and is proud of it. Helping the cause of the small businessman, he believes, is the best way to promote long-term prosperity in the U.S. His favorite label for himself: "Mr. Retail...
...Chicagoan Meek, who fought unceasingly against wartime price controls, Paul Douglas is a "symbol of socialism." In contrast to the Douglas view, he thinks that most of the Eisenhower Administration's domestic policies are basically sound, but has some doubts about its foreign policies, e.g., he wants foreign aid cut sharply. He is close to Douglas on one, and probably no more than one, basic issue: both favor lower tariffs...
...battle between Douglas and Meek is likely to be bitter, and the result close. One major issue that neither man can control but each will try to use: the condition of the U.S. economy. Paul Douglas has been crying that the U.S. may be heading for a depression, has made the main issue of his campaign "the restoration of prosperity and substantially full employment." If the economy turns solidly upward before November, Mr. Retail will be able to saw off the Professor's self-made economic limb...