Word: meekly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individual without measuring him against a higher cause have failed, have in the end only diminished him. Nietzsche's rhapsodic worship of man's will, of which Hitler was an absurd and gruesome caricature, fits no more into the true Western tradition than does the soul's meek expectation of nirvana or the patient Russian submission to worldly tyranny. "If it were not for the religious element," says Hocking, "individualism would spell chaos...
...that he merely wanted to dramatize the city's parking problems and truly did not covet Harvard's land. But in the meanwhile, some 350 undergraduates had formed a vigilante committee and ran through the streets shouting "We want Vellucci," The Vellucci Riot was colorful enough but still somewhat meek...
...resulting riot and weeks of disquiet showed Ole Miss to be embarrassingly short of leadership. The chancellor proved to be a don't-rock-the-boat executive who did nothing to head off the riot, and then merely wrist-slapped offenders. The faculty has for years been equally meek. Now, in a dramatic reversal caused by Student Meredith's battle, the once apathetic faculty has snapped to and set about saving Ole Miss...
Before the first trickle of sunlight, lust, cynicism and murder get their melodramatic comeuppance. The meek do inherit the earth, but boredom has long since claimed the stage...
...level best to grab Goldwater's coattails. He constantly invoked Goldwater's name, bragged of their close association, preached Goldwater conservatism. Like Goldwater, he criticized the United Nations, blasted the New Frontier, complained about the Administration's failure to act against Cuba. But Mecham (pronounced Meek-am) managed to look even more conservative. He invited the support of the John Birch Society, which Shadegg had criticized by saying, "The oversimplified, dogmatic answers of the extremists of the far right offer little hope for progress...