Word: cowered
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...weak in fact, that we must cower before the verbal brandishments of others, the responsibility for such weakness should be a matter of the gravest public concern...
...primary objections to Hoover's isolationist theories are not military, MacLeish said. "These can be disposed of in two sentences." What is important is that "temperamentally, we must follow our convictions. We cannot cower in cellars...
...Spitzel [informers] will find the mark on their homes and will wonder whether the Red arm of the MVD is really long enough to protect them. Ordinary citizens, seeing an F, will know they are not alone, that there is more to be done against inhumanity than simply to cower and grovel...
...Dogs cower, flitter bats, and owls range...
...book begins in one of the awful periods in history when "the noble British nation seems to fall from its high estate, loses all trace of sense or purpose, and appears to cower from the menace of foreign peril, frothing pious platitudes while foemen forge their arms." It ends with his appointment as Prime Minister...