Word: meekly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debaters yesterday found themselves arguing such resolutions as "The kid is not my son," "I stink, therefore I am:" "It is the burnout of almost everyone;" and "The meek shall inherit the mirth...
Once out of prison, Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) takes an oath to stay honest. In his terms, that means peddling tie clips, shoelaces, sex books, even Nazi newspapers, but not pimping or joining a gang of thieves led by the brusque dandy Pums (Ivan Desny) and including his friend Meek (Franz Buchrieser) and the reptilian sadist Reinhold (Gottfried John). Franz's reward for innocently going with the gang on a heist one night is to be pushed by Reinhold from the van and have his right arm crushed under the wheel of an approaching car. Reinhold pushes other things...
White students held a counter-demonstration to save the "Stars and Bars." Tensions flared but no major confrontation took place according to university spokesman Ed Meek. The Chronicle of Higher Education
...real Gandhi mistreated his family. He wrote about his illiterate wife: "I simply cannot bear to look at Ba's face. The expression is often like that on the face of a meek cow and gives one the feeling as a cow occasionally does, that in her own dump manner she is saying something." He refused to educate his sons, ordered them as young men to abstain from sex, and disowned the eldest, Harilal, for warning to get married. His son eventuallty attacked Gandhi in print, converted to Islam, and died an alcoholic...
...losers in all three markets were oil-drilling and oil-service stocks. The global glut that drove down crude prices also explains the comparatively meek rise in the Amex index: it is loaded with oil stocks. Its best stock last year, SMD Industries, makes picture frames and stationery. The shares rose by 592%, mostly on the strength of SMD's rights to make school supplies and stationery bearing the likenesses of two of the year's heroes...