Word: timidation
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...town. Regina and her brother Ben and Oscar, the nucleus of the family, vie among themselves for the position of Chief of the Wealth--struggling at the same time to keep their various relatives in line. Their disciplinary measures take effect. Everyone married and born to the trio is timid or ill when the lights...
...with bunny ears but with a camera. Don't Look Back, a documentary of his 1965 tour of England, shows that Dylan eats cigarettes for breakfast, wears black, and confuses people in his spare time. The slow-motion press stalks him with sentences and paragraphs, the unexamined grammar of timid minds: "Would you say that you care about people? Are you protesting against certain things? How do you see the art of the folksinger in contemporary society?" Dylan retreats as his words advance: "How can I answer that question if you have the nerve to ask it...What does that...
Attlee became Britain's Prime Minister in the startling upset elections of July 1945, when war-weary Britons tossed out Winston Churchill's Tories and gave Labor an overwhelming 146-seat majority in Commons. Frail and diffident, timid in crowds and a mediocre public speaker, he seemed an unlikely leader for such a challenging moment. He surprised everyone by proceeding to direct a "bloodless revolution" the likes of which Britain had not experienced since the Reform Bill of 1832 created the modern Parliament. Attlee's Laborites set up an entire social security system and welfare state...
Stifled by Conformity. "Seminary teaching," the report sums up, "often lacks contact with life - it is too far from where the world is; its methods are antiquated, its concerns circumscribed, its outlook timid and unimaginative. Also, too much seminary teaching is stifled by conformity to canonical requirements, which encourages routine repetition, dogmatism, evasion of current issues and lack of reflection on matters of profound concern...
...government, the last 17 as the highly successful head of the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, which aids the handicapped. "She's a dynamo," says Gardner. Breezy and humane, she is also a tough in-fighter known in the cautious corridors of government for her outspoken skill in dealing with timid planners. "She's the most sophisticated bureaucrat in the business," says Connecticut Senator and former HEW Secretary Abe Ribicoff, "a do-gooder who really knows...