Word: meekness
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Fleitas was quickly locked up in the capital's penitentiary, in cell block "H," called murderers' row. Now meek, he pleaded: "Be fair with me. I shot in self-defense." The police found no weapon on Gallostra...
...generation. But the workers in General Booth's host, like other dedicated servants of the poor, could make an explanation. The world could not continue to persecute, or even be indifferent, to men & women who live by the most difficult of Christ's beatitudes: "Blessed are the meek . . . blessed are the merciful...
Pretty soon a meek student came to my bed and asked if I needed any books or assignments. He was from Phillips Brooks House. I said no thank you, and I almost felt like crying...
...Meek little Mitsuo Handa had never wanted to make a million yen or be a conquering hero. In his home town of Maebashi, a crumbling provincial capital near Tokyo, Handa spent just enough time at his little bicycle shop to keep his wife and two children in rice and modest clothes; the rest of his time he fribbled away in an aimless search for a milder spiritual refuge than the stern Shintoism of his ancestors...
Young Mao remembered the lesson, and modified it. In his long march to power, he knew how to appear meek when the occasion demanded. But he himself was never moved by meekness. China's new master is no man to settle-permanently-for a one-knee kowtow from an opponent...