Word: meekness
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Despite this intellectual vacuum, the Advocate has carried on, in its own meek way performing a valuable service. By solely publishing students' poetry and prose, the magazine causes very little excitement, but it does stimulate young writers, giving them the necessary illusion that they are getting somewhere. Aside from the pure stimulus to vanity, however, publishing in the Advocate has other, more concrete, advantages--many publishers subscribe to the magazine, and for a number of undergraduate writers it has served as a stepping stone to more lucrative satisfaction. Another aid to undergraduate writing is the board's criticism of pieces...
Last week, in an effort to still the storm, Sir David issued a soothing statement urging local school authorities to hurry up and see whether they could give their teachers a raise. But no one expected that his gesture would have much effect. The meek were up in arms and on the verge of the biggest display of teacher defiance in British history. As a matter of fact, Sir David would probably be in the soup no matter what he decided to do. "If he showed himself in our staff room," said one teacher from Peterborough, "he would be lucky...
Prime Minister Anthony Eden said that in 33 years in Parliament Attlee had never made a personal enemy. Winston Churchill had once called him "a sheep in sheep's clothing." But the meek exterior could give way to a rasping, if understated, effectiveness, and he had learned the secret of triumphing over more impulsive rivals by quietly out-waiting them...
...Alta Cossart Lawson, a ferocious doyenne of Vincentown, N.J., returns now and then-they say-to stalk up and down -in front of the ruin of her mansion, in extirpation of the night she forced her drunken, demented son to lop off the head of his meek little wife with an ax. ¶ Lettitia Dalton, the vain and vicious wife of a rich Virginia planter, was quite a dame. One night she sent her sister Caro to an old greenhouse on her York River plantation to get some grapes. Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower...
...commenting on the move, Meek observed that "companies which make and sell consumer goods seem to be looking today for employees who can give them the woman's point of view...