Word: meekness
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...given more to haggling over detail than defining any vision of what the future political shape of Europe should be. Mansholt's predecessors -with the exception of Germany's Walter Hallstein, who served from 1958 to 1967-have set a pattern of weak and even meek presidents. That era is clearly over...
...wings, and never seen, is a devil ex machina, Simmo, a man who strip-mines simple souls like Bentley. Buzo tells us that the meek do not in herit the earth, and that the power-brutes who do pocket only cinders...
...that is, parasites, do-nothings) where he would scrounge a life until the next Good Friday when the mob of Christians would burst in for revenge upon the "Christ-killers", who would be cringing in their houses, under their beds, praying for salvation from a very meek and very silent...
...those who speak Russian, although long E in Greek; And cockneys, like the French, agree That H is neither N nor E Nor Hate's harsh aspirate, but meek And mute as in Humanity...
...Huxley's Brave New World. Skinner, presumably, would be World Controller, or at least Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning, thus avoiding the consequences he would force upon the rest of us. Right now, a great many people are trying desperately in their loud or quiet, influential or meek ways to avoid exactly the kind of social-political disaster that Skinner advocates...