Word: timidating
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...would "shun the sweeping positive judgements" which Olin Downes of the Times "would tremble to make." One need look back no further than last Sunday to find a column by Downes that must have given him chorea, if not epilepay. But remember, Murray, that he who is only a timid fence sitter will get splinters in uncomfortable places. Caldwell Titcomb...
...party" label was a good (though unfair) line for Labor-and the Tories knew it. The Tories, who had been hammering away at Labor's timid foreign policy, quickly switched to "bread and butter politics." They attacked high prices, small rations of butter and meat and Labor's failure to build enough houses to replace those destroyed in World War II. New Tory posters appeared showing an infant grumbling, "The way things are, I shall be grown up before I get my house...
...House of Representatives (1935-39), announced that he will be a candidate. In the early years of the New Deal, Maverick led its most militant wing. He introduced Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme-Court-packing plan. He once proposed that cocktail parties be abolished because "they give the timid talker too much false courage ... a large talker too big an opportunity ... an average man a cross between an earache and a stomach-ache." Last week he started off calmly: "I think the time has come in the U.S. for people to quit knocking the Government all the time...
...peace could oppose the keeping of U.S. troops in Europe; it could stir up workers by blaming low wages and high prices on rearmament programs; it could prey on mothers whose sons must fight, on men of God who hated war, on the indifferent and the despairing, on the timid who feared that arming for self-defense was provocative...
Apocalyptic Visions. William Cowper was only six when his mother, a descendant of the great John Donne, died of a fever. Timid little William never got over the shock of her death. Next year he took another severe shock when he was thrown to the young lions of an English boarding school. In sporting tradition, stronger boys mauled the weakling thoroughly, and with special zest because of an "intimate deformity" he is said to have had. William apparently made his "adjustment" by repressing his fear and shame and hatred. At any rate, when he was 21, and a law student...