Word: meekness
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...Chester Cable was the biggest employer in Chester. N.Y. (pop. 1,200). 62 miles north of New York City. Grey and frail-looking, White. 48, lived with his wife and 16-month-old son in a handsome house with a fine view of rich, rolling countryside. Austere and outwardly meek, he buried himself in the task of running the company he had created, but he found time to serve as a Cub scoutmaster, president of the chamber of commerce, a pillar of a neighboring town's Jewish temple...
...Colonel. It sounds unlikely, but the story of a meek, ingenious Polish refugee (Danny Kaye) and a blustering anti-Semitic Polish officer (Curt Jürgens) is the funniest thing out of Hollywood this year...
Weary of always being outvoted in the Diet, the Socialists have tried to outshout and outbrawl their opponents, at times reducing Japan's postwar democracy to a mess. Faced with these outbursts, Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi remained politely placid, meek and smiling. "But Kishi's smile," the Socialists admit with just a trace of admiration, "is like a rose-it has thorns that slash." Last week, faced with the toughest battle in his 21 months in office, Kishi injected some thorny parliamentary shenanigans...
...personal expression, that word, was with God and was God, and he existed with God from the beginning." In the Beatitudes, too, many will take issue at Phillips' rendering of the "poor in spirit" as "humble-minded," "they that mourn" as "those who know what sorrow means," "the meek" as "those who claim nothing," and the "pure in heart" as "the utterly sincere...
Also, Thurber needs them in The Last Flower to play off against the rabbits--now normal in size, but fierce, not meek. Note the sequence: war ends; the dogs, symbols of normalcy, abandon man; fierce rabbits descend; with time, natural conditions resume; children chase away the rabbits; the dogs return to man. Nature at the start was inverted both by war and the denial of sex. The rabbits can be viewed as the scourge of the gods (or of nature) after war, and one might add that the "enormous rabbit" itself could be America's fear of warfare...