Word: sheepishness
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...Freshman Kaplan. They parked the car. Suddenly, as the upperclassmen had planned, another student, impersonating an outraged husband, jumped from behind some bushes and fired a shotgun. The group scattered on the run. The upperclassmen made their way back to the car and waited for Kaplan's sheepish return. But he never came back...
...Indian "Great One" mask, used in rites for the sick, represented a spirit who once challenged the Creator himself to a mountain-moving contest. The Creator responded by smacking a mountain right up against the Great One's nose, leaving him with a permanent nose tilt and a sheepish expression...
...Angeles, a clutch of angry, elderly demonstrators stormed a U.N. flag-raising ceremony. They chanted "U.N. is un-American," wagged U.S. flags in the faces of sheepish councilmen. The Chicago Tribune discovered a lady sewing on a U.N. flag, and the anti-U.N. fervor swept Tribune-land. Illinois V.F.W. and American Legion posts passed resolutions. The Aurora city council banned the U.N. flag from public buildings because "Russian Communists remain in the United Nations." In Highland Park, the local D.A.R. insisted that the U.N. flag come down. It did. The Parent-Teacher Association insisted it go back up. Town...
...Britain, Norway, Sweden and Finland, whenever I have asked Socialist leaders about further nationalization, the reaction has usually been strangely identical: a slightly sheepish smile, an embarrassed shrug, some evasive words amounting to this: 'Don't get us wrong, we're still Socialists, mind you, but you see this isn't quite the time...
...writing about the Sever chairs. This letter is the delayed expression of first growing doubt, then smouldering disgust and alarm, not only at the new chairs themselves but at the sheepish, unthinking acquiescence with which we accept them. A prophetic eye would discern in the chairs a sign of a new attitude toward education, and perhaps also in their slow but sure advance, Hitler-fashion, from classroom to classroom, a symbol of the gradual and easy deception and deadening of popular reaction...