Word: sheepishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board unanimously voted him a five-year contract. But after thinking it over a week, Taylor declined the job. Instead he recommended that Governor Sigler ask for special powers to fire any board member he saw fit. Even some members of the school board were beginning to feel sheepish about their own conduct. Said Board Member Sadlowski: "I like to play politics, but clean politics. What we've been doing here is a little bit too dirty...
Square-faced Brigadier General Wallace Graham wore his uniform-with four rows of service ribbons and gold-braided aiguillettes-when he appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee last week. He also wore the sheepish smile of a babe in the woods who had been found by the wrong search party...
...have you know no man lives here," she informal the intruder as he retreated in disorder, Sheepish in his confused apology, he forgot to take anything with him including his fellow celebrant who turned out to be fictitious...
...case of death, call us." Washington, D.C.'s WQQW (TIME, Jan. 20) had refused to air this inviting sales talk by a local undertaker. It had also banned soap operas, chill-the-children shows and (with a few sheepish exceptions) singing commercials. Instead, the station had gone heavy on good music, local news, literary, scientific and medical discussion...
...Miraflores Palace, under a portrait of the great Bolivar, provisional President Romulo Betancourt worked the livelong day, receiving delegations of idea-bearing citizens, soldiers, sheepish rightists. Even Venezuela's Communists, who had been caught napping, came with offers of peace...