Word: timidation
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...very fact that an African and an Argentine are even being mentioned as papabili is to the credit of Paul, the supposedly timid Pope. It was Paul who appointed the first black and Chicano bishops in the U.S. in this century, 19 black African and Asian Cardinals and, earlier this year, the first black archbishop in South Africa. He made unprecedented papal visitations to honor Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific islands. In these regions his landmark utterance was not the divisive 1968 Humanae vitae, the birth control encyclical that caused such an uproar in the West...
Stockwell argues that the agency should have stayed out of Angola altogether or moved in much more forcefully in the beginning. Eventually, he says, a "dualism" about the operation developed: "The people in the field were going all out. But back home, people gradually got timid." When the agency finally decided to pull out, it sent a final payment of $1,376,700 in conscience money to Roberto and Savimbi through Kinshasa. The cash, Stockwell claims, was pocketed by Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko...
...trouble was that Healey's fine-tuning of the budget seems to have been so carefully calibrated that few could get excited about it-and the British get more excited about budgets than most people. "Too cautious," groused a Trades Union Congress chieftain. "Politically timid," grumbled Confederation of British Industry President John Greenborough. Healey himself was partly to blame. Expansive and voluble, he is given to flights of optimism. For example, he has predicted a drop in the inflation rate this year to 7%-down from the present 9.1% rate and a peak of 26% three years...
...LITTLE GIRL, maybe six or seven years old with straight brown hair and timid eyes, walks up to you as you get off the bus. "Buy a button? For the march?" she asks. You've travelled nine or ten hours in a miserable excuse for an economy bus to be able to march today. For a dollar, you can't refuse her. You buy the button, and allow the girl to pin it to your shirt. It reads. "Affirmative Action/Smash the Bakke Case." Welcome to the largest civil rights demonstration in 15 years...
...urged unrestrained economic aggression on a world-wide scale, Connally received a royal welcome from both the Kennedy School of Government and a timid group of several hundred students who politely listened to his lecture...