Word: timidating
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...Johnson emphasized when Premier Nguyen Cao Ky flew in from Saigon with 47 other Vietnamese and U.S. officials, including U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. "They fight on," the President said of the South Vietnamese. "They fight for the essential rights of human existence, and only the callous or the timid can ignore their cause." From then on, however, the keynote was "construction" in Viet Nam-so much so that the President advised Barry Zorthian, U.S. Public Affairs Chief in Saigon: "Barry, every time I see a picture of a battle in the papers, I want to see a picture...
Congress and government agencies have been too timid in their support of the social and behavioral sciences, Roger R. Revelle, director of the Center of Population Studies of the School of Public Health, told the House Committee on Science and Astronautics yesterday...
...There were times when I felt like killing David," Julie Christie confesses. But she also admits that, as an actress disciplined in underplaying roles, she was taught to soar by Lean. "David would say to me, 'None of that timid sort of stuff.' So I let myself go. I went over the top. It was exciting...
...Timid no more. A year ago last May, Saigon and the U.S. decided to build up the national police so that they could carry out a classic role in counterinsurgency as developed by the British in Malaya: Resource Control. In plain terms, their function is to deny guerrillas food, medicine and supplies. Pham Van Lieu, a crack former marine commando, was brought in to restore discipline and esprit and to try to mend fences with the regular military. The number of canh sat was doubled from 22,000 to the present 53,000, will total 72,000 by 1967-many...
Nonetheless, many New Yorkers consider the mayor's duties to be increasingly anachronistic-inevitably involved in such a flood of ceremonial and political functions that the actual management of the city has been left to a timid bureaucracy. It has become a New Yorker's cliche that the mayor is powerless to halt the city's decline. In fact, recent charter revisions have given the mayor of New York extraordinary new executive powers, which the outgoing administration did not utilize to best advantage...