Word: timidation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sore throat, the flu, or an infection under a toenail of my left foot. According to the enlightened standards of UHS, none of the above is a particularly accurate assessment of my bodily ailments. Instead, I am pregnant, about to become pregnant, confused about my sexuality, or too timid to ask for contraception...
...songs are not all pathos and bitterness. They are funny and boisterous too. The same Brel who can make you want to cry for sad old people can turn around, tongue-in-cheek, and say of timid people, "If you leave the world to them, they'll crochet it the color of gooseshit...
...possibility of challenging its hegemony is greater than ever. The media, though still pathetically timid, are more aggressive than in the past. One gang of law-and-order fascists has been thoroughly discredited. Alternative institutions are flourishing. The right of individuals to their own life styles is increasingly unquestioned...
...replies and some of the tougher questions posed by broadcast newsmen. Firmly and aggressively in command of the situation, Nixon insisted that he was not trying to hide anything; he simply wanted to ensure that no future President would be surrounded by fearful advisers who are "yes men" too timid to give their boss "the variety of views he needs to make the right kind of decision...
...conversations with TIME correspondents last week, many of Kissinger's "old boys" remembered him as a reserved, hard-working scholar without flamboyance. Belgium's former Finance Minister Andre Vlerick (seminar of '53) recalled: "Henry Kissinger was very shy and timid. He was self-conscious about being considered a foreigner by the Americans...