Word: meekness
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...picture chronicles a busy day in the detective squad room of a Manhattan station house. The room swirls with traffic: hoodlums, crackpots, mouthpieces, sharpies; the meek, the mulcted, the outraged. The detectives, unlike those in Hollywood's endlessly filmed games of cops & robbers, look like real cops under the strain of a tough, often nasty, grind; they grumble, sweat and suffer...
...meek-looking little man, brown of skin and brown of suit, entered the Durban Municipal Free Library, sat down near a dozen startled whites, and with trembling fingers turned the pages of a magazine. An attendant hurried up, whispered that the library was for whites only; he must leave. Replied the man: "I am breaking your apartheid [racial segregation] law, which is based on the false, un-Christian theory of race inequality...
...Note for Lewis. Many labor bigwigs did seek him out when they had important news. When they didn't, Stark flushed them out himself. Once, when reporters were vainly trying to get at John L. Lewis, holed up in his Washington headquarters during an executive board meeting, meek Lou Stark simply sent up a sharp note, and Lewis came right down...
...salad days of war, meek, myopic Prince Hironobu Fushimi, distant cousin of Emperor Hirohito, was a middle-aged captain in the Imperial navy. His country's defeat left him a civilian, and like other kinsmen of the Imperial family, without title. His Tokyo mansion had been bombed; he built himself a modest cottage on the site of the ruins. There he and his wife, the former Princess Hanako Kanin, settled down as plain Mr. & Mrs. Hironobu Kacho...
...Television has its greatest influence on the young and the people with limited education. For them TV broadens the horizons as nothing else could ... It is the greatest means of educating people and giving them facts ever dreamed of."-John S. Meek, TV manufacturer...