Word: sheepishness
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...company unless I get this issue resolved,'" she says. She has to fix the problem by the end of the day, but the 35-year-old mother of 5-year-old twins also has to pick up her children from day care. What happens next? Perhaps she makes a sheepish call to her husband, asking if he could skip out early while she puts out the fire at work. (Again?) Maybe she scrambles madly to find someone who can clean up the mess in time for her to sneak out at 4. (Did anyone see me?) Or perhaps, after another...
...Soviet and American people directly over television. There was no answer from Moscow. At the Geneva summit eleven months later, Wick was walking offstage from a ceremony when he ran into Zamyatin, whom he had never met "I didn't answer your letter," Zamyatin confessed with a sheepish smile. Replied Wick: "I was wondering if you read your mail." Both men laughed. The spirit of the moment had seized them and, more important, their leaders. The historic exchange of television messages on New Year's Day was the result...
Glazer, a Government concentrator, has set up his schedule so that he only has classes Tuesday through Thursday, providing for maximal UC time. Glazer shares a classmate’s book and looks sheepish when asked where...
...rousted sleeping workers from their dormitories and forced them to squat in rows on the ground. All proved to have documents, though half a dozen were detained for validity checks. "There is a possibility [the illegals] have gone into hiding because they knew of the crackdown," conceded a slightly sheepish senior official at the scene...
...didn’t quite know what to say. “Oh, thanks…I see.” I flashed her a sheepish smile. “You play with these things...