Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passage of elevated trains. There follows a beautiful, bleak scene in an off-hours lunchroom where a munching stranger at the next table looks on and listens in as they droop over their inedible food, trying to fight off their bewilderment, their disappointment, their misery, their freezing shyness...
This official robomb short includes some astutely quiet shots: of placid wheat, a blowing summer tree in the wasted city, children picking their way, with touching shyness, among freshly ruined homes. It also has some intensely exciting shots of the bombs in flight, fantastic as Buck Rogers and intimately sinister as a noise in the wall, a weirdly terrible expression and symbol of the enemy. And there is one tremendous moment when, in one of the most sensational scenes of the war, a V-1 is caught on the wing by a British plane, roars the screen full...
...child in the vacation Bible school had ever even seen one. But the Vermonters' native xenophobia was rapidly overcome by the little black visitors' good behavior and good nature. They lived and played with their hosts' children, were well behaved at table, did not suffer from shyness or homesickness, were soon calling their hosts "Uncle" and "Aunt," sometimes...
Ernie himself was never happy at a desk. Despite his shyness, something drove him on to move around, meet new people, see new things, get his facts firsthand. For a while he wrote a successful column of aviation chitchat. In 1935, after a severe attack of influenza, he went to the Southwest to recuperate and wrote a dozen travel pieces about his trip. "They had a sort of Mark Twain quality and they knocked my eyes right out," remembers Scripps-Howard's Editor in Chief George B. ("Deac") Parker. When Ernie proposed that he become a permanent roving reporter...
...crowd around or throw flowers; they did not celebrate or interfere in any way with the business of the armies. If a man looked thirsty they offered him a drink. If he wanted to talk and could speak their language they talked to him in a friendly way. With shyness but also with candor they made it plain that they were glad the armies had come and hoped they would behave...