Word: meekness
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...play is about two sisters, their orphaned nephew, their colored maid who pretends she is an Indian, and several concerned villagers--concerned because the meek, faded, slightly demented sister has run away from home (with sister, maid, and a stray retired judge), away from the other sister, the fierce faded sister, who wanted to make a big business out of the meek one's only possession: a secret--a recipe for an effective medicine, made from herbs. The fugitives flee to a tree house; in a few speeches about themselves they overcome some of their loneliness...
...same alley with me and peeked at the action from behind a fender, giving us a dual advantage." Camera and mike captured some exciting scenes: a cop firing a tear-gas gun at a revolver-armed bandit; globs of gas routing the drunk desperadoes; a bandit's meek surrender; the collapse of the woman hostage; the recovery of the stolen cash; and interviews with the café owner, a police official and one of the hostages. KTTViewers. who Welsh claims "automatically tuned us in because we're known as specialists in special events," were even treated...
...undesirable discharge, quested for a job and anonymity. But Girard's Japanese wife Candy was getting a warmer reception from the locals than Bill. While he was unsuccessfully seeking work, she was neatly fitting herself into his family, even helped fix the Christmas turkey. Girard was moaning meek and low: "All I want to do is get me a job, make a good living, be a good husband and just be an average guy. I don't want no part of the limelight ever again...
After his rambunctious foreign-policy speech, Nye Bevan was meek as a lamb when Labor's conference got under way. Reason: party unity...
...happens every year. Kathe Kollwitz returns to Cambridge. War ravages the land. Someone mentions pathos comparing Kollwitz to Goya. A chorus nods its appreciation of pathos and it is left for some meek, distant voice to observe that Goya, however, remains a formidable criterion...