Word: cower
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...Harvard is going to cower behind its students, how can it expect its students to act in any other way but to cower as well...
...Burgin could be persuasive, however, he could also be mercurial, a trait that the Examiner poked fun at in another TV ad. As an unsmiling Burgin enters the newsroom, staffers cower behind bookshelves and scatter in fear. "David's got a reputation as sort of a tough guy," narrates Hearst. "But I think that's blown way out of proportion." Still, Burgin was difficult. He disappeared from the office for long stretches, blew up suddenly at staffers, - and once, in a fit of pique, skipped a planned meeting with company brass in New York. Hearst "kept saying I was capricious...
...friends at the Loeb, your attention we beg, Don't let Beckett prevent you from breaking a leg. For Ozment who o'ersees the vaunted CUE guide. Don't cower--go on, be subjective, be snide. If professors don't like what you say of their course. One look at their students will rid their course. One look at their students will rid their remorse. For Sociology youngsters Skocpol and Starr. Tenure--so close and yet ever so far. And to Carlo Rubbia we must give our praise. For chasing those atoms for days and for days. Now Georgi, Glashow...
...York, New York, they have composed dozens of brassy ballads for gutsy ladies staking out their parcel of asphalt turf. No raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens for these guys. Kander's tunes have the catchy dissonance of a Broadway traffic snarl just before show time; violins cower mutely in the pit while the percussion sets a tempo of edgy energy and the horns bleat like Kurt Weill's orphaned children. Ebb never wrote a lyric as clawing as the imaginary one cited above, but he revels in devising anthems of urban indomitability. Everything that outsiders hate...
...strength to push people around any more." At this moment, Michael Mailer, 19, handsome and muscular, is heard moving about in a nearby room. Mailer leans forward in his chair and lowers his voice conspiratorially: "I used to be able to look at that kid and he'd cower...