Word: timidating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaper without making the reader scream? Experience suggests otherwise. When New York's afternoon dailies went from a nickel to a dime in 1956, all three took circulation losses so severe that not one of them has climbed back to its old level. After a more timid price boost-from a nickel to 7?-in 1952, two of Detroit's three papers spent years recovering lost ground, and the third-ranking Times has still not recovered. Yet a fortnight ago, all three Detroit papers raised prices again, and not only got away with it but last week sold...
...pious, hardfisted Boer farmers who are as trapped by their environment and culture as any of Author Undset's bedeviled Norwegians. For them, too, "man is distant, but God is near." In The Miller, a baffled man expresses his outrage at the approach of death by browbeating his timid wife, who runs "to serve him with quick, fluttering movements like those of a frightened hen"; in The Sinner, a lifetime of hard work and small returns explodes in passion when a sharecropper runs off with another woman, then humbly comes home when his wife sends him a note saying...
...slender with sharp bows and flat decks. Submerged, their unstreamlined shape produces high drag, and their feeble, short-lived storage batteries push them along at a sedate, one-horse-shay speed. Even nuclear subs, whose main engines need no air and can operate at full power underwater, are timid compromises with tradition so far. The first Nautilus has a vestigial bow and deck, is not as round as she should be for real underwater speed...
...Timid Newspapers: "This is the age of the weaseling phrase. A low-down stinking insurance executive who makes off with the life savings of his customers is, in newspaper wording, the 'head of a crumbling financial empire.' A two-legged s.o.b. may be questioned in terms of his casual canine heredity, but he must never be called the s.o.b...
...hours we spent in Ravenna." Tillich built up an increasingly fruitful career of writing and lecturing; between 1924 and 1933, he taught theology and philosophy at the universities of Marburg, Dresden, Leipzig and Frankfurt. But darkness was closing in: "Gradually life changed around us, became rigid and timid...