Word: timidation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anchor in the harbor. Last fall Kalmbach made the mistake of appearing at the 25th anniversary dinner of the Balboa Bay Club. As a director he was included in the testimonials, but when he stood to acknowledge his name, there was a pause of embarrassed silence followed by a timid patter of applause. Says a guest who watched Kalmbach's humiliation: "It was pathetic...
...Timid Choice. One Russian writer who rather surprisingly came to Solzhenitsyn's defense was Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the angry Establishment poet who has been notably servile toward the Kremlin in recent years. After learning of Solzhenitsyn's arrest, Yevtushenko sent what he described as "a polite and mild" telegram to Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. In it, he expressed his anxiety about the writer's fate and how it might affect the U.S.S.R.'s prestige...
...response to all this is to write off the current group of college students as hopelessly timid and selfish. I cannot accept this explanation, for I am frightened by many of the same things that trouble my classmates and yet I know my motives are not evil. I though of teaching next year but there are no jobs; I considered organizing but there is no money. I, along with many other people here, intend to fulfill my obligations--but one cannot build without mortar and brick...
There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell...
...Health-care delivery in this country seems to serve the well-being of doctors and insurance companies, but hardly anyone else. Let's hope that the introduction of PSROs, timid first step that it is, represents a movement toward bringing accountability into health care. As the nation's largest union of health-care employees (including a handful of doctors), we believe that shedding light on medical practices and patient care in America will benefit the taxpayers, the workers and, most of all, the patients...