Word: shyness
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...shirt dignity is also not a part of his make-up. The summer after he was elected president he spent abroad with his wife: they created a sensation by traveling second-class on the "Europa." A CRIMSON of that same era reported that Conant's outstanding characteristic was his shyness; as substantiation it reported the following conversation between Conant and a man he was calling up to appoint his secretary...
...former Harvard man heads a society for foreign students. Newspapers in foreign countries often run stories of the Center's activities, also. The extension of international hospitality is rather gratifying to an organization which works to give real meaning to the vague concept of international "understanding"--convinced that shyness, prejudice and ignorance, not fundamental differences, keep people, apart...
Between those millstones, the character of Eleanor Roosevelt was slowly shaped. She strove with almost panicky dutifulness to be a good mother and a helpful and understanding wife. Doggedly, despite shyness, awkwardness and naivete, she also strove, as the decades passed, to break out into a world...
These contrasts also persist in his appearance. He is the most unmiddle-aged of men, having the gaunt features and detached air of an old man, mixed with the shyness and sudden malice of a child. It is as though a Marx brother had become an archbishop, or even more impressive, an archbishop had the gifts of a Marx brother...
...painful shyness, Louis Finkelstein was never backward when he had a cause. In order to counteract the drift of Brownsville away from the Torah, he and Sol Goldman launched an intense juvenile crusade - buttonholing youngsters, speaking on street corners, organizing study clubs, and lining up pledges to observe the Sabbath...