Word: meekness
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...would you feel," he asked a group of white religious leaders, "if you had to go before a judge who had a black face and belonged to the Black Muslims?" Did he consider his own activism a breach of clerical ethics? "Christ," he replied, "was not a peaceful, meek type of individual. He caused a great deal of conflict...
...bazaars, of steamer trips through the river jungle of the Ganges Delta, of the slow cycle of the Indian year, from Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, back again to the Moslem festival of Muharram. In a muted way there was tragedy, too. The sisters tell how Nitai, their meek sweeper, killed his beautiful daughter in a jealous rage after she moved in with Guru, the Godden family's gatekeeper...
...Meek." She was hospitalized for physical and nervous exhaustion. Why had Bicycle Bill taken her? One explanation was offered by Psychiatrist John P. Shovlin, superintendent of the state hospital where Hollenbaugh had been confined. Recalling him as a typically "shy, meek" schizophrenic who "was always retreating," Shovlin noted: "These people find it painful to associate with people of their own age. They sometimes seek the companionship of someone much younger...
That thoughtful bit of sarcasm was the nastiest Cassius got all week. In fact, he was so much on his good behavior that sportswriters took to calling him "Muhammad the Meek." "I want to thank," he said, "the lords and all the common market people who have treated me so well in England. I want to thank the President of the United States and the Louisville draft board, who let me out of my country." The only man Clay forgot to thank was Henry Cooper, the balding cockney greengrocer whose left hand made it all possible: the most widely watched...
...students are more pious, humble and industrious than the young men who study for the Roman Catholic priesthood. And perhaps no archbishop in the U.S. is more sympathetic to the plight of the meek than Boston's mercurial Richard Cardinal Gushing. Now students from St. John's Seminary,* barely a stone's throw from Cushing's residence, are rebelliously demanding reform. Cushing, suddenly stiff-necked, has expelled eight of them. The battle between liberal prelate and freedom-seeking students symbolizes one of the unresolved problems of the new spirit of freedom in the Catholic Church: reformation...