Word: bashfulness
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...often he and his mother had nothing on their table but a candle and a plate of spaghetti. Joe swore he would conquer poverty. He became a professional boxer, and finally, fourteen years ago, bought a bar & grill on Brooklyn's bleak Third Avenue. This year black-haired, bash-nosed Joe Bonavita was 39, married, prosperous in a small way and eating well...
...like many another Berliner, 52-year-old Walter was hungry. So were his wife, his bedridden mother and his 4½-year-old son. When plump little Kasha came trotting by one day, Walter decided to bash her on the head with a crowbar. When Betty's German gardener found Kasha's body in the back of Walter's shop, he notified the MPs. Kasha died without going to the stewpot, but Walter landed in jail nonetheless. Ten days later a military court found him guilty and sentenced him to one month in prison. But the court...
...problem of socially harnessing nuclear energy is not different in kind from that presented by each technological advance in turn since the day when man first bound stone to stick to help him hew wood and grind corn and then realized it could also serve to bash his neighbor's brains...
...truck a soldier-hackney handed passengers a five-foot piece of two-by-four. Said he: "Here's the bell-bash on the back of the driver's compartment when you want to get off." They did. On another, the driver yelled an invitation to get aboard: "Come on, come...
...fighting was bitter and ruthless. German snipers potted at everyone in sight, not sparing first-aid men. Hill 165, above the town, changed hands six times. A New Zealand lieutenant found his Tommy gun jammed just as he flushed a German sniper: he used it as a club to bash in the man's head...