Word: timidating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spare the Leaf Mold . . ." But Teacher Peepers is at his timid zaniest when he goes to the classroom. In his special lecture, "Wake Up Your Sluggish Soil" (published originally in Petal & Stem), he concludes: "Spare the leaf mold, spoil the hepatica. Remember, your dirt is the restaurant where your flowers dine." To his students' questions he replies with thoughtful absurdities: "Yes, I think tonsils are useful to some people"; "No, I don't think we know just how fast a dinosaur...
...still lives simply in a Manhattan apartment, drives the motorcycle he bought from his friend, Actor Marlon Brando, still patches his trousers with plastic cement. He spends his weekends flower-watching on a newly acquired 2½-acre field in Rockland, N.Y. "Next thing," he says in his timid Peepersish voice, "I think I'll buy me a bunch of cows...
...John Cogley, the Commonweal: "Moral relativism, pragmatism, raw secularism -all the timid forebears of the giant Marxism-stood before the bar with Hiss. It was not only a generation that was on trial, as Mr. Alistair Cooke put it; it was also the vision of good without...
...report issued last fall by the Nationel Planning Association emphasized need for unrestricted educational gift "Existing tax incentives are hasten this process," it predicted, "The timid (companies) will evidently be judged the five-percent programs of their more energetic competitors and, in time, they too will be compelled by the logic of the situation to reappraise their own five-percent expenditures...
...paintings were timid and incompetent, though sometimes rather pretty. Their souvenir value rose and fell with Hitler's own fortunes. Now that the artist has passed into history, the hunt is on again for signed, original Hitlers. He himself remembered having painted 300 pictures, but got back only 50 of them. Last week German dealers were scrabbling for the 250 paintings that may theoretically remain. Mainly to spur search, some of them were encouraging the rumor that a first-class Hitler might bring as much...