Word: shyness
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...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...
...loved solitude, would often sit among people for hours without saying a word. The one thing Herriman could always talk about fluently and without shyness was Krazy...
...while we thought we had another Lindbergh in Major Bong, because it apparently hurt him to talk. . . . This lad is naturally modest to the point almost of shyness while having deep confidence in his ability...