Word: timidating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...timid, thankful repatriates told their stories at Munsan and Inchon last week, one fact became increasingly clear: the Chinese Communists have waged a ceaseless battle for the minds of their captives. Whatever cruel or gentle things the Chinese did, their purpose was to convince the P.W.s that the U.S. started the war, that the Chinese "volunteers" were their friends, that the U.S. was conducting germ warfare and had massacred North Korean and Chinese prisoners. "Physically," one ex-prisoner said of his Chinese camp, "it was all right, but mentally it was damn rough." Almost to a man, the returnees reported...
...those suffering under Communist slavery, to the timid and intimidated peoples of the world, let us say this: you can count upon...
This change in attitude, then, is the cause of the mounting restrictions upon academic freedom that the CRIMSON has chronicled for the last five years. Every timid administrator, every repressive rule, every indignantly patriotic a legislator feeds upon this distrust, and doing so, increases it vehemence. This year's novelty, the Congressional investigations, are but one, albeit the most gaudy manifestation of the scapegoat temper. You can call the Veldes and Jenners whatever you like: ambitious intolerants, "junketeering gumshoes," or violator of the spirit of due process of law. But the volume of their fan mail testifies to the faithfulness...
...amusingly about music. They know little about it, are clever in avoiding the use of technical terms-and might just as well be reporting cattle shows. The third group is much larger. Its members are quite hopeless-drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing dropsical drips. All English critics, without exception, are timid and conventional...
Said the Louisville Courier-Journal in an editorial: A "clear attempt to silence press criticism [was] launched this week . . . The hearing was, of course, a flagrant and cynical attempt to frighten more timid newspapers ... It did not intimidate Mr. Wechsler . . . But it will undoubtedly warn off other papers who might shrink from a brawl with low-blow Joe . . . We heartily endorse Mr. Wechsler's own demand that the American Society of Newspaper Editors study the transcript of this bullying private hearing...