Word: sheepishness
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This ring-around-a-Morgenthau is generally danced with the highest patriotic motives-although it makes Mr. Morgenthau, as the unwilling Maypole, look a little sheepish. Sometimes the dancers are not even aware that they are circumventing the rule that he set up as a bar to inflation. For example, one person sells non-Government securities to buy war bonds,† The securities are bought, in turn, by a second person, who sometimes sells Government securities to get the money with which to buy. The banks in their turn, buy these-just as they buy other Government securities in order...
...picture (called Brainstorm) of a brain in a storm. (The brain forms the body of an ostrich and the spinal cord is the bird's neck which tunnels through the sand, emerges on the other side with a sheepish expression. The brain's convolutions represent voluptuous female nudes. Miss Stilwell says the brain is that of an escapist...
...Italy on Thanksgiving Day, a group of U.S. soldiers prepared to romp into a turkey dinner. Suddenly one of them stood up. He was a 22-year-old veteran pilot. He said: "Gentlemen, since this is Thanksgiving I would like to say grace." Everybody looked sheepish. Said a chaplain: "Lieutenant, I think that's a fine idea...
...stopped in front of Stoughton and shot a ladder up to the vicinity of his billet...the proud look on Mr. Gregory's face a day or so later when he walked smartly into the gun bin to turn in his piece and said, "My name's Gorham."...the sheepish grin on James Gwin Zea's face when a bunch of the boys referred to him as "the flag," and stood up as he sat down to chow at their tuble ONE day...the crackling sound of Bill Acker's voice after a particularly long session of "hip-toop-threep...
...undergraduate friend of ours came around the other day looking awfully sheepish. He admits that he was under the old influence, but that doesn't completely take the ignominy from spending three hours in a Beacon Hill manhole. It might even have been four, for all he knows...