Word: meekly
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...hardly figures to last. Come fall, golf's fearsome twosome will undoubtedly have fat bankrolls again. But for the moment at least, the meek were inheriting the earth. Paul Harney, 34, who quit the pro tour last year because "my nerves can't take it any more," returned from retirement just long enough to win $7,500 in the Los Angeles Open. Art Wall, who had not won a tournament since 1960, collected the $4,000 big money at San Diego. "Champagne Tony" Lema, 29, who hardly qualifies as a hardship case ($67,112 last year...
...simply coils, sometimes slackly, sometimes snugly, around an event: a dance marathon. But it clings to an abiding vision that life is a grueling test, rather like 3,000 hours on a dance marathon floor, and that the prizes do not necessarily go to the strong or the meek, but to those who gallantly or stubbornly endure...
...Daphne du Maurier's story and Alfred Hitchcock's movie, The Birds, it is the birds that go berserk and attack man. Last week in New York City, it was man who, after generations of meek submission to fowl indignities, turned upon the birds. The city government was considering exterminating the pigeons that drop their excrement on park benches, statues and hurrying pedestrians. City officials are convinced at last that the pigeons - up to 5,000,000 of them, by some of the wilder estimates - are an intolerable menace to health...
...meek do the Terriers appear again this year, that coach Bill McCurdy sent his Harvard runners through a full-scale workout yesterday instead of giving them the usual day off before a meet. Of course, the fact that Ivy League co-favorites Cornell and Brown loom on the near horizon for the Crimson also had much to do with McCurdy's unorthodox action...
...interested in the movies because they seemed to him unnecessarily stupid. Rashomon was his tenth picture, and since Rashomon he has produced a relentless succession of masterpieces. Seven Samurai (1954), considered by many the best action movie ever made, is a military idyl with a social moral: the meek shall inherit the earth-when they learn to fight for their rights. Ikiru (1952), Kurosawa's greatest work, describes the tragedy and transfiguration of a hopelessly ordinary man, a grubby little bookkeeper who does not dare to live until he learns he is going to die. Yojimbo (1962), conceived...