Word: timidation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which "jealously guards the freedom of some nations" while neglecting private appeals by "plain humble individuals." In an evident allusion to the West's present efforts at détente with the Soviet Union, which he compares with acquiescence to Hitler at Munich in 1938, he writes: "The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barbarity, except concessions and smiles...
...Gallup poll leads Ellsberg to dismiss the general belief that the U.S. sank slowly in the East like some hapless woolly mammoth in a tar pit. Perhaps Presidents overestimated the consequences of clear-cut withdrawal not only because of the advice they received but also because of their own timid estimates of what the American people could or could not face up to. If the Viet Nam stalemate is a tragedy, Ellsberg suggests, it is because its failures have all been "imperfect." He quotes Theodore Draper's wry observation about the Bay of Pigs as "that rare political/military event...
Most of the portrayals are equally competent if occasionally irritating. Daniel Von Gargen as the artist trying to marry Vandergelder's timid niece Ermengarde often seems too foppishly petulant in his clownish suit. And the cook in the VanHuysen household (to which Ermengarde is sent for safe-keeping), provides a disturbingly vague ethnic element in a frenetic last act which otherwise finally gives itself over to the true spirit of the farce. Was she Swedish, Hungarian, German...
...first, she says, "I was timid and scared to death." But since her election as a delegate at the state convention, she has become more relaxed and gregarious. "You find out that they're just people," she says. "It's amazing as you study politicians. They get so wrapped up in staying in office that they lose contact with the people." A Shirley Chisholm supporter, Betty Patrick is now taking lessons in parliamentary procedure and throwing potluck dinners to raise the $500 she needs to go to Miami Beach...
...ranked third in National League batting with a .332 average. Sanguillen, like Bench, belongs to that rare species of athlete that enjoys catching. Says Pirate Coach Don Leppert: "The most important asset a catcher can have is desire. Let's face it, catching is not for the timid. A lot of players have the tools, but they don't like being hit with foul tips or wild pitches and they don't like those collisions at the plate...