Word: timidation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They've got to be professional. They stake their reputations on it," the former paratrooper and veteran of more than 1500 jumps told me to calm my fears about skydiving. His expertise, khaki uniform and medal of the elite paratrooper corps would be enough to convince even the most timid in our group of a dozen Harvard students of the safety of skydiving. He must be right, I think, they must be professional. As he had said, they stake their livelihood on it, just as you put your life in their hands. After all, this is skydiving, the risks...
...latest fashion invasion. Explains one 40-year-old sylph: "I worked really hard to stay looking good, and I'm not going to cover it up with baggies." The jeans have been well received among Chicago high schoolers, but older customers still seem to be too timid to go public with the new look...
...post-Watergate climate, politicians no longer bought this Eichmannesque reasoning, and went after Helms in characteristically timid fashion. Typically, writes Powers, "Helms was not charged with what he did, but more narrowly for having lied about it." Asked by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1973 whether the CIA had tried to overthrow the government of Chile or passed money to Salvador Allende's opponents, Helms replied, simply, "No sir." Perjury...
...Connally was indeed the most formidable personality in the Cabinet. Highly intelligent, superbly endowed physically, he looked and acted as if he were born to lead. He was not timid, nor did he lack courage. "You will be measured in this town," he said to me once, "by the enemies you destroy. The bigger they are, the bigger you will be." Connally relished combat. Whatever one might think of his views, he was a leader...
LIFE OF BRIAN does not do the job on the gospels that Holy Grail did on the Arthurian legends. The scope is more timid, the technique less audacious. We had a right to expect better, funnier, or at least wilder. The more slavishly Monty Python tries to follow conventions--the more they tailor their films to play in Peoria--the less anyone will laugh at them. The film remains only a funny shadow of what might have been--like Jesus Christ beating a dead parrot...