Word: timidating
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...think more of constitutional government than I do about the liquor traffic. I think that democratic institutions are passing through as severe a test as they have ever had or will have. Fascism on the one hand, communism on the other and a vast drove of timid souls in between make a pretty hard fight for democratic institutions...
...perfect synonyms. A "whack" is a blow delivered much in the same way as a "thwack," but it presupposes a certain capable nonchalance in the deliverer. A thwack is a blow delivered more clumsily, though with equal vigor, by some person not accustomed to administering physical violences; as a timid schoolboy, an enraged English butler, any octogenarian...
...Gillette Safety Razor Co. prints on the tasteful green wrappers of its blades, besides a handsome portrait of King C. Gillette, the words "NO STROPPING NO HONING." Timid users of Gillette blades, especially women, think these words are a command, forbidding the shaver ever to have a Gillette blade salvaged once it wears out. Other people ignore the legend or interpret it as gentle self-ingratiation by the Gillette Co., meaning, "Whoso uses a Gillette razor, he strops not, neither does he hone...
...Manhattan, a scrawny little character scurried up Sixth Avenue, peering in a timid manner at elevated trains, passersby. On the lookout for anarchists about to bomb subway stations, Patrolman William Burns, wearing official trousers, civilian coat, as he returned to his 4 a. m. beat, gave chase. "Stop!" he bellowed, lumbering after his prey. Scared, the little man he was chasing ducked into a bystreet. "They must be after somebody," he thought. "I don't want to get hit if they start shooting." Patrolman Burns, scenting adventure, shot twice into the air to make an effect...
...incessantly about the World State that science will eventually create. A sophisticated ineffectual from the U. S., a Mr. Plantagenet-Buchan, assists the great man by neatly defining as "meanwhiling" the occupation of all people, himself included, who are not consciously accelerating the World State's arrival. A timid Tory, and a British Fascist; a beautiful Lady Catherine; some tennis and bridge players including a Puppy Clarges (female) ; and Cynthia's intensely inarticulate husband, Philip, are the audience to whom the deplorable nature of "meanwhiling" is revealed with varying effects...