Word: cowering
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...Poverty brooded threatens and failures multiply," brooded Novelist-turned-Scenarist Rupert Hughes, in a thoughtful piece for Variety. "There is no laughter left. The whips of scorn make the naked flesh wince and the bruised pariah cower and slink. . . . These are cloudy days for the motion picture world. And it is a world. A new world. But, like other worlds, it revolves from night to day and back to night and back to day again and again...
...they answer not to thy call, walk alone, If they are afraid and cower mutely, facing the wall, O thou of evil luck, Open thy mind and speak out alone...
...jerks; he listens anxiously for voices from corners; under cabbage leaves on his plate he slyly hides pieces of meat he thinks have been poisoned. His only game is darts. He hurls the dart violently; then, when collecting his darts from the board, he is apt to duck, dodge, cower-expecting someone to throw a dart into his back...
Martin conceived the idea of his invention when, during a recent rainy spell, he found himself beset on all sides by determined females wielding the sharp points of their umbrellas with deadly efficacy, so much so, in fact, that he claims he was forced to cower for an hour in a convenient doorway till the rush hour passed. Fervently he wished for some sort of apparatus which would protect him reasonably well from the all too accurate thrusts of the parasol brigadiers, so when he arrived back at his little den in Weld he set to work on the plans...
...quit talking about defense and start talking about war. You'd be amazed at the number of men in the Army today who blindly seem to think that if they put in a year of service in company with a million-odd other men Germany and Japan will cower in submission. No kidding, there's a hell of a big job to do on the psychological front in this Army...