Word: meekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reward after 31 years of service to Trujillo. A bright lad from a middle-class family, he graduated from law school at 22 and quickly understood where the future lay under an iron-fisted dictator. Finding a job as a government prosecutor, he was the perfect functionary-meek, efficient, trusted. By 1936, Balaguer was under secretary for the presidency and the little man around the palace to perform odd jobs. He went on from diplomatic missions (to Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico) to Cabinet posts (Education, External Affairs), and finally, in 1957, to Vice President under the benefactor's puppet...
Britain's meek and undemanding state schoolteachers have long existed on rock-bottom salaries. Out of a deep responsibility to the profession, they put up with pay that starts at $1,456 a year (against a national average wage of $2,184 a year) and rises after 17 years' service to a maximum of $2,800. Many of them must do without such attributes of affluence as refrigerators, washing machines, books, records, playgoing and holidays abroad. Few own cars; typical of those who do is London Geography Teacher Bruce Given, 49, father of three, who recently bought...
...Nicosia to New Delhi last week with a planeload of 20 in his party, onetime Manhattan Adman Bowles wisely refrained from discussing his problems with the President. But Bowles Press Aide Carl Rowan said airily: "If Mr. Bowles was afraid of being ousted one would assume he would appear meek and cautious. Instead, he has spoken with strong conviction." And Bowles's aides were prolific with puffs about their chief. Said one: "Our man knows all the African problems, and he is clear about what stand he thinks the U.S. should take in each...
...whom. Roused to easy brutality, the police murder in turn an innocent Negro shepherd, and when his wife humbly asks for his body, the heartbreaking request is turned down; she is given three days to leave the house where she has spent her life. So much for the meek. But Author Paton deals not only with those who dare not fight back. In Debbie Go Home, a young colored girl dreams of the party, a sop to her people really, which the white administrator of the province has organized. It promises only a false happiness, but her mother wants...
...printer, pays no rent, entertains the town whores, and laughs his unpaid, gentle landlord into inconsequence. Just when the reader is beginning to ask why the mild printer has to take all this, Author Narayan-himself a Hindu, a vegetarian, and a small, mild fellow-shows that the meek have their own kind of strength...