Word: meekly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respectable, cultured, well-behaved and poised, proud, quiet and refined, clean-minded, meek and immaculate, delicate, tender, bighearted, lovable, unselfish, unspoiled, generous and ambitious. I don't gossip, I'm not vengeful, don't gamble or drink, have rare dexterity, am supermundane, possess savoir faire. I'm perspicacious, perceptive, euphemistic, strong, healthy, idealistic, make my own clothes, hats and bags, do my own hair, cook and love music...
...Lavender Hill Mob," Guinness is a petty bank official, a man who counts gold ingots as they are delivered from refinery to the vault. His name is Henry Holland (most fictitious meek Englishmen are named Henry), and his indrawn chin and cautiously ambling gait are the touches of a perfectionist. But behind Henry's humble facade there lies an astute mind, and when he has gathered his "mob" of two hoodlums around him to plan his gold robbery, he is a different...
...picture chronicles a busy day in the detective squad room of a Manhattan station house. The room swirls with traffic: hoodlums, crackpots, mouthpieces, sharpies; the meek, the mulcted, the outraged. The detectives, unlike those in Hollywood's endlessly filmed games of cops & robbers, look like real cops under the strain of a tough, often nasty, grind; they grumble, sweat and suffer...
...meek-looking little man, brown of skin and brown of suit, entered the Durban Municipal Free Library, sat down near a dozen startled whites, and with trembling fingers turned the pages of a magazine. An attendant hurried up, whispered that the library was for whites only; he must leave. Replied the man: "I am breaking your apartheid [racial segregation] law, which is based on the false, un-Christian theory of race inequality...
...Note for Lewis. Many labor bigwigs did seek him out when they had important news. When they didn't, Stark flushed them out himself. Once, when reporters were vainly trying to get at John L. Lewis, holed up in his Washington headquarters during an executive board meeting, meek Lou Stark simply sent up a sharp note, and Lewis came right down...