Word: timidating
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...French right-wingers the percentage seemed excessive. Cried conservative assemblymen: the proposed taxes would kill private enterprise and the incentive to save. Sneered Socialist Jules Moch: the proposed taxes were "too timid and too late." Growled Communist boss Jacques JDuclos: Minister Pleven was "toadying to the money interests...
...Kaufman; music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; produced by Max Gordon). Hard on the heels of Memphis Bound (TIME, June 4), which throws a monkey wrench into the music of H.M.S. Pinafore, conies Hollywood Pinafore, which runs a saw through the libretto. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., is now a timid tyrant of a producer (Victor Moore); Dick Deadeye is Dick Live-Eye (William Gaxton), a rapacious agent. Ralph Rackstraw (Gilbert Russell) is a lowlier writer than he was a tar; and Little Buttercup is Little ButterUp, a gurgling columnist named Louhedda Hopsons (Shirley Booth...
Last week both House and Senate put the timid delegates to shame. Unanimously they adopted resolutions urging U.S. participation in a permanent "international educational and cultural organization." Reassured, the U.S. delegation promptly took steps to restore the original provision to the charter. If it is shaped to the wishes of its House sponsor, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, the international organization will 1) help re-establish education in devastated countries, 2) advise on the re-education of the enemy, 3) promote exchange of students, teachers, materials, methods, 4) avoid propaganda and direct control of schools...
...more than 400 set huge, billowing fires in the naval fueling station and synthetic fuel factory at Tokuyama, the big oil refinery at Otaki, and the oil storage installations on Oshima (biggest in the home islands). They also flogged four airfields on Kyushu and Shikoku. Fighter opposition was timid, but there was heavy flak from Jap warships. Nevertheless, not one of the big bombers was lost...
First contact with that world usually came as a sharp shock. Sometimes it bred effusive warmth, sometimes icy resentment. Many Germans at first looked on the Americans as liberators, then relapsed into timid docility. Some went on smiling, trying to be friendly, until finally they understood that the Americans were all but anesthetized against them...