Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Their shyness was understandable. The CIA usually works in the shadows, particularly in the byzantine, often dangerous Middle East, where too much publicity about what the agency does can get a spy killed. Over nine days of grueling negotiations at Wye, however, Tenet and a small group of agency operatives became the key diplomats who hammered out the most contentious part of the interim accord: the Palestinians' promise to crack down on terror- ists so Israel would withdraw from more West Bank land. Tenet, said Bill Clinton, "had an unusual, almost unprecedented role to play because of the security considerations...
...which delves into the bond between James Blatchley, a semicomatose New York City cop, and Nuala Riordan, his Irish-immigrant caregiver. Struck down (as the author himself was once) by a horrifically stubborn strain of chicken pox, the immobilized Blatchley has been rendered tongue-tied not by Cyrano-like shyness but by an emergency tracheotomy and an ominous respirator that he has nicknamed, Ken Kesey style, the Machine...
...explanation with which I can identify is shyness: Finding the right words and the right time to say them can be intimidating, especially in the presence of other highly articulate students. And sometimes, it's a better learning experience to listen than to speak...
...path to this unique position of power had not been easy. The only daughter of an alcoholic father and a beautiful but aloof mother who was openly disappointed by Eleanor's lack of a pretty face, Eleanor was plagued by insecurity and shyness. An early marriage to her handsome fifth cousin once removed, Franklin Roosevelt, increased her insecurity and took away her one source of confidence: her work in a New York City settlement house. "For 10 years, I was always just getting over having a baby or about to have another one," she later lamented, "so my occupations were...
While he attributes this to his own shyness, headds that Harvard's "over-worked faculty" aretempted to give teaching less attention than theirother responsibilities...