Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debut as Nigeria's new Foreign Minister, and the verbal swagger reflected his country's pride in being Africa's most populous nation (40 million). It also reflected the fact that the new, half-civilized African states do not enter the world stage with any shyness. Only one year after his land reached nationhood, Wachuku could stand before the U.N. to lecture the world: "I am serving notice..." (to South Africa), "Things we want..." (from Portugal...
...feet shuffling. He knows his life depends on what you say. I feel for the boys; they're scared. They want to go to Harvard. They're thinking. 'If Birge thinks I'm a jerk, I won't go there.' I don't take off for shyness--I look for a little spark of greatness, a spark of creativity...
...carefully parted, his rimless glasses gleaming, approaches his job with a confidence that almost borders on irreverence, which is the way he conducted himself in his years at Ford. The size of the job does not awe him. "I hate to say this." he murmurs with a trace of shyness. "After all, I came from a compa ny of pretty good size. And when you get up to this size, much greater size doesn't mean very much...
...whole men and women, who have such minor emotional disturbances as fear about thunder or a compulsion to twist and untwist paper clips (symbolically twisting the boss's neck). Their aggressiveness, perfectionism or shyness are not exaggerated...
...Logan '23, another former crew manager, commented candidly, "When I was very small, I concluded that I was no athlete. The academic work was interesting and easy for me but somehow or other I seemed to lack the proficiency that many others had in different Perhaps it started with shyness; perhaps it was a developed system of coordination. In any event that . . .The work of Crew Manager was infinitely time assuming. Most of my afternoons in college were one of the boat houses, either Newell or Weld. The spring season, being out of doors, was delightful although manager...