Word: meekness
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...jurisdictional tussle between the union and the Navy over plant guards who are both union members and Coast Guardsmen. WLB ordered a contract signed on points already agreed upon and removed the guards, whose status caused the August strike, from union jurisdiction. Faintly encouraged, the corporation issued a meek statement hoping that "After a reasonable amount of patience . . . production will meet expectations...
...basis of this public declaration it is easy for even the most biased to so that it is a meek admission to the fact that Tufts has more relative importance. For the more fact that Tufts rates the most red ration coupons is a sure indication that one of the world's most just organizations, the United States Government, recognizes Tufts' indisputable predominance.--The Tufts Weekly...
...meek announcement said that applications need not specify exact routes to be considered; that in any case they should "include a general provision which will permit [them] to be construed as [good] for any new route which the Board may find to be required. . . ." Airmen thanked Good Neighbor grumbling for this sudden flipflop, figured that it must also mean that all the talk about more equipment for them was finally about to pay off in planes instead of promises...
...cuss about this & that, but quite often come up with a suggestion which even a brass hat can see is right." Thousands of soldiers in Major General Charles H. Corlett's command, arriving in the Aleutians for the occupation of Kiska, blinked with amazement at getting such apparently meek & modest talk from an Army publication. Reading on in the special 50-page pamphlet entitled Soldiers' Manual (and subtitled Every Man His Own Valet-Every Foxhole a Suite at the Waldorf}, they found some of the best common-sense advice yet gathered for men in this...
...Said meek Governor Arnall, after Franklin Roosevelt's visit: "I don't subscribe to this moth-eaten doctrine of states' rights...