Word: timidating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fradd reassures timid members of '54 that if they have any personal or religious reasons for not wanting to strip for the camera, they may pose in their undergarments...
Fradd reassures timid members of '54 that if they have any personal or religious reasons for not wanting to strip for the camera, they may pose in their undergarments...
...Most of timid, inefficient Betty's jobs were as dull in the doing as they are in the telling. And she was a failure at most of them. After ten years at night school studying shorthand, she felt that she deserved "some kind of medal for being the slowest-witted, most-unable-to-be-taught and longest-attender-at-school-studying-one-subject." Then one day sister Mary told her to write a bestseller. Result: The Egg and I the $49.50 pumps and $100,000 from movie rights alone...
...Viet Nam side, Bao Dai's timid government has put some muscle into its administration. This week two strong men with contrasting backgrounds-one has worked with the Communists, the other always against them-were filling new jobs. But both brought the same message: the Communists, they said, were very tough people, and to beat them one had to be tougher still...
Tomboy's one friend is Mick, the most timid boy in the gang. When he is killed in a robbery, Tomboy is left alone in a world of fear and violence. At the novel's end, she is hopping a freight car to get away from the police...