Word: timidating
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...valuables, and her terrified mother handed over a bag containing some 250,000 rubles in cash and government bonds. Fur-Cutter Aleksei Aleksandrov caved in at the sight of the dreaded secret police and surrendered 300,000 rubles in money and furs. One victim, finally, put in a timid call to the authorities, to ask if the night visitors were really official. Last week the "secret policemen" who had spread a little incidental terror from Moscow and Leningrad to Kharkov and Stalino were exposed as a gang of criminals and con men headed by one Leon Voskonian...
This week the Boston Museum of Fine Arts opens a major show of 151 drawings, oils and watercolors intended to remind Americans that Maurice Prendergast was, in fact, a rebel of note. Timid by nature and without a shred of temperament, he painted a sunshine world of parks, picnics and parasols, and peopled it with a race of doll-like creatures who seemed on perpetual holiday. Yet he was the first U.S. artist to paint with broken colors, helped organize New York's 1913 Armory Show, which clamorously launched "modern art" in the U.S. His big trouble since...
...phobia, reports the British Medical Journal, is actually a form of separation anxiety: the rebellious child's real trouble is not fear of school but fear of separation from his parents. The affected child, says the B.M.J., "is usually above the average in intelligence, but tends to be timid, sensitive, spoiled, and to show other fears and fear reactions, such as night terrors. The mothers tend to be indulgent, overprotective and overanxious." Coddled and shy, the child quickly cultivates an intense dislike for the rigors of school discipline. "The final breakdown," reports the B.M.J., "is occasioned usually...
...upriver stronghold of Stanleyville. Truckloads of Mobutu's forces raced to the dock, escorted by jeeps armed with bazookas, recoilless rifles and machine guns. In the excitement, an armored car fired a wild shot into the river before it was learned that the new arrivals were a timid group of recruits loyal to Mobutu...
...promised her a trip to their holy of holies: Minneapolis, Minn. Candida races about the islands with the enraptured but platonic Henry (her only proviso: "We must not make a baby!"). She involves him in punching a local union leader in the jaw and horsewhipping an editor. The timid colonial government claps Henry into jail and ships him off as a bundle for Britain...