Word: timidation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roosevelt's letter and The Crimson's militance brought sharp criticism in the letter column, but the policies of the 1917 editors grew more hawkish until April, when war was declared. The only regret expressed it, the editorial on the declaration was the delay of a "timid" government in jumping into battle. Three inch wooden block letters announced simply "WAR" in the two middle columns. The fourth column announced that Harvard Athletics were suspended; the first that the new Hockey captain had gone to Exeter...
...anxiety of indecision. We have not known what to do. There is nothing more wearing on the courage of a brave people than to know that it is bound by the shackles of inaction, that in spite of all its strength it must await the weakness of the most timid of its leaders...
...Also among the survivors are a beefy cop (Ernest Borgnine) and his new wife, a reformed whore (Stella Stevens); a teen-age girl (Pamela Sue Martin) and her obnoxious little brother (Eric Shea); an aging Jewish couple (Shelley Winters and Jack Albertson) en route to the holy land; a timid haberdasher (Red Buttons); a willowy rock singer (Carol Lynley); and a plucky waiter (Roddy McDowall). With God as his copilot, and with a good deal of muscle, Hackman leads them ever upward, through sets that look as tortuous as a miniature golf course...
...goes like this: "He was a good student, and although he was well liked by his classmates, he was not a joiner or an activist." Solid stuff, with a sensible content exactly suited to its style. Three hundred pages of it produce a book like one of those wistful, timid little men Thurber used to draw...
...Liberals: Don't kid yourselves into voting as if you really cared about blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and the rest of the poor and boring of the world get smart and support a candidate who believes in ruthless sell interest and makes no bones about it. And to you timid souls who many be troubled by the disappearance of the Bill of Rights and other key sections of the Constitution Grow up Even fascism has its good points and anyway-it's a waster of time trying to fight the big boys...