Word: timidating
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...climax, in wet woods at night, is a scene for a modern Inferno. After it, the timid anticlimax, in which Natalie recovers her sanity, is close to banal. But 30-year-old Author Jackson, who has already made a name for herself with such psychological chillers as The Lottery and other short stories (TIME, May 23, 1949), proves that she can maintain the same eerie pressure at novel length...
With the demand far greater than the supply, Pappy tries to tell farmers how to make the most of their bugs. "You gotta be patient with them," he warns his customers. "They are easily frightened, timid bugs. Just lay them down gently, one handful at a time, and they'll go right to work next...
...quoted Pope Pius XII: "Evil triumphs because good men are timid," adding: "Unless honest men with courage fight this thing, nobody's life will be worth 10? on the waterfront. If the government, shippers and stevedoring companies work together, three months could see a marvelous birth of freedom and justice on the waterfront." Many young Filipino laborers lined up with Hogan. Said one: "The U.O.E.F. may have big government men behind them, but we have God's own senator on our side...
...Canadian forces much higher than 69,000. Though Canada is the only major power of the North Atlantic alliance without a draft law, the Tories recognized that there is little active sentiment for conscription (chief support has come from the Canadian Legion and some newspapers). They also made their timid obeisance to the traditional isolationism of French Catholic Quebec, which bitterly opposes the draft even when the enemy in sight is the enemy of its faith...
...potency of ideas . . . The ideal of taking a college degree, getting married and settled, rearing a family, having a dependable job, making lots of money and having a solid and ever expanding bank account-this ideal conceived purely in these terms is not good enough. It is ... a very timid ideal. It is not dangerous enough; it does not answer to man's deepest hunger for truth and community, where going out of one's self is a joy, and where it is more blessed to give than to receive. Confronted with this ideal alone, Asia...