Word: timidation
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...handily enough ("A beautiful shoe, madam, seamless uppers, a discreet buckle and a soft dimple toe, and for a foot like yours with so little adhesion between the phalanges of the toe and the metatarsal joint . . ."), but he is desperately unhappy. Bernard has no friends. He burns with hopeless, timid lusts. He lingers before the posters advertising "Running Without a Stitch, a documentary record of the nudists' own Olympic games, filmed in all the glory of Cinemascope and Eastmancolour." But he dares not enter the theater for fear of being seen...
Naturally, the timid professor goes wild and falls in love with the star, rejecting the passionate advances of Mrs. St. Regis. The children also have their fun, an awful show is produced, and everyone concludes that "Shakespeare Can Do Without Us" in the final production number. They are quite right...
...Communist Viet Cong's crack 514th Battalion, some 2,000 U.S.-supported government troops last week trapped 500 of the enemy in a swamp ringed with coconut and banana groves, moved in for the kill. But a single Viet Cong platoon managed to hold off a timid government battalion for five hours. Other government troops failed to contact the enemy before dark. Instead of slipping away in the night as usual, the Viet Cong blasted right through the government lines and escaped, killing 22 government soldiers, wounding...
...ones they would have, like lobsters from a tank. William Randolph Hearst acquired Marion Davies that way. But that was the Ziegfeld era in the Pleistocene epoch. Modern Broadway is different. Chorus lines, even in musicals, are depleted, and those old self-made audience libertines have turned into relatively timid expense-account types who go, in a big verbal way, for the unattainable elf of the smash light comedy -the bright and blue-jeaned breed of girl that can make a man of 50 start reading the Village Voice...
When reports did begin to trickle in they were, on the whole, quite unsatisfactory. The future of Dudley House was dismissed in one page, and the initial parietal hour report consisted of timid equivocations. One of the few reports worthy of being mimeographed, a study of language instruction at Harvard, was prepared entirely by persons not on the Council. The room rent report was obsolete before it was published, and the Tenth House study was too shallow to be valuable. Fittingly, the Council, at its last meeting, rejected the bulky Executive Committee Report because of vague construction, faulty proposals, insufficiently...