Word: timidating
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...Wreck of 29. Francis Thompson was the son of a North-country doctor who did his best to give his boy a good start. But his son was one of those people who are too timid to say yes or no in any decision, who allow others to decide for them -and then surreptitiously slide out from under the decision. Dr. Thompson believed that his son was a happy medical student-until he found that Student Thompson never went near the lecture halls if he could help it. Not until a few years later did father Thompson discover that...
Lanning's hero, Herbert Komar, is about as unheroic as a man can be. A timid accountant whose pleasures are as small as his appetites, he has managed to reach 60 without marriage, love or any other risk...
...John E. Hubbard, led by an aged woman in a wheel chair, was ridiculously enjoyable. In an effort to burlesque the "Unforgettable Character" series in the Reader's Digest, T. D. Edwards wrecks a potentially good idea by attempting to hit the "Unforgettable" style, and missing completely. "Alice the Timid Typhoon"--again Updike--is a fable-like story with illustrations. Written in simple, child-like prose, it may conceivably appeal to children...
...such iron-armed drivers as Barney Oldfield and Louis Chevrolet were the heroes of the day. In 1906 a Stanley Steamer achieved an unofficial speed of 197 m.p.h. Young bloods roared along the dusty roads in Mercers, Stutzes, Mercedes and Locomobiles, exhausts thundering like Catling guns, driving horses and timid folk into the fields...
...change the subject.' But once, in a moment of exuberance, he cried : 'I have no secrets from you, Massa Baker!' And in a letter he wrote after I left, he said : 'You came to Innsbruck to extract by pickax a few timid and grudging facts from a fretful hermit, and what you got was Niagara from the Ancient Mariner.' He exhorted me to become a headmaster some day - which, coming from a teacher like himself, I took to be a compliment. He remembered Barton warmly, but as far as I remember had no recommendation...