Word: timidating
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...Instead of $100,000, the movie's Producer-Director Stanley Donen had about $1,500,000 to squander. Instead of painted flats, he had the city of London for his backdrop, and some of the city's stateliest halls for his interiors. Instead of nature's timid hues, he had Technicolor. Instead of a couple of merely famous names-Mary Martin and Charles Boyer-on his marquee, he had two of the biggest that have ever been in the business-Ingrid Bergman and Gary Grant...
This week the state assembly is meeting in Calcutta, and high on the agenda is a bill for slum clearance-the first such major legislation ever introduced in Calcutta. Even this first timid gesture to clean out the bustees is opposed by the Communists. They argue that the bill favors the bustee landlords, who are to be compensated for their slum holdings, and that the money would be better spent on improving areas where there is no running water and where eight toilet seats serve 400 people. Cynically, they add that nothing will come of slum clearance anyway...
...radio stations, long too timid to editorialize, are beginning to air their own opinions on public issues. At a broadcasters' conference sponsored in Baltimore last week by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, it was estimated that a third of the nation's stations have begun editorializing, mostly within the last 18 months. Items...
Salesmen were also instructed to get the ignition key of the automobile the customer intended to trade in. Some timid customers were not able to get their cars back, were forced to go ahead with the deal. Others recovered their keys and cars only to discover that good tires and battery had been switched for worn-out items. A long procession of witnesses testified to other ingenious ways in which they had been cheated. On the Rev. Bert D. Crouch, Caruso played all the tricks in his bag. Caruso's salesmen upped the price of Crouch...
Although pleased by the trend here, he criticised the classics departments of other universities. "Across the country departments of classics are going to have to rethink," he said, since "they have been too intellectually timid, too bound by tradition...