Word: timidation
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...Timid Grandmother. Most of the church's small margin of liquid assets is simply plunked into savings and checking accounts-the "cigar box" approach. The rest consists of securities and commercial property worth almost $1 billion, which puts the church a notch above the Rockefeller Foundation. But this money is often badly invested. One bank trust officer scanned a diocesan portfolio and remarked, "If your grandmother were unusually timid, this is what she'd do with her money." Sometimes the yield does not even cover the cost of investment. Gollin thinks U.S. dioceses are "perhaps the least effectual...
...effects of life situations (struggle, victory, defeat, reward and punishment), and withdraw a stronger person for the new understanding. Praise belongs to the athlete, for as Teddy Roosevelt said," ...if he fails, at least (the athlete) fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat...
...Tasaday are a timid people, wary of strangers and so afraid of the fugú, or epidemics like smallpox, that have ravaged the area in the past that they are reported to abandon sick people to die alone and unaided. Their precarious existence permits few to reach old age, and they seem to find little joy in life. Yet the Tasaday like to stand in the rain and let the water course down their bodies. And they enjoy the music of the kúbing, a kind of jew's-harp made from bamboo and carried from place...
...only out to bring the Royal Nonesuch to Cambridge. For how else do you read the self-proclaiming advertisements on the back of the program promising instruction in "exciting fall and winter drama programs featuring sense recall, blocking, animal and shower games?" And how do you take the rather timid striptease in "Hawkins and Grabber" as Steve and Joel remove (some of) their clothes in a metaphoric portrayal of psychic undress, if it's not just an attempt to provide the press agent (listed in the program as Off Beat Promotion) a saleable poster idea. No, I'm afraid...
...under the hot sun like exotic weeds: restaurants shaped like hats, milk cans or owls, and squat concrete structures garnished with billboards or slathered with ornamentation. But he detests the proliferation of glum office towers that are "not Los Angeles but memorials to a certain insecurity of spirit among timid souls who cannot bear to go with the flow of Angeleno life...