Word: timidation
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...corporations choose either to save the tax rebate which the government offers, or to distribute it among their stock-holders, society has gained nothing. Capital will simply have passed from the timid hands of management to the even more cautious hands of the nation's banking institutions...
...Good Gamble. If the Hawks win, it will be their initial first-place finish since they entered the league 37 years ago. They once were the doves of the N.H.L., so timid that from 1947 to 1958 their only excursion outside the cellar was fourth place in 1953. At last. Owner Jim Norris took a gamble that few fans thought would work. As the club's 22nd coach, he chose a tall, bush-browed, front-office man named Rudy Pilous, who had no professional coaching experience...
...Frontier may seem timid at times in foreign relations, but on the domestic scene it can be jokingly aggressive-as it showed in the steel-price battle, the Battle of Mississippi, and several other feats of political jujitsu. Last week the Administration even tried to take Abraham Lincoln away from the Republican Party...
...parvenu playing a game that calls for expertise, Publisher Morrison made many costly mistakes. The Journal's vaunted liberalism was never more than timid; its qualifications as a newspaper were never better than just fair. Toward the end, the paper was losing $90,000 a month, and the till was so bare that Morrison borrowed money from his own loyal staffers-many of whom have not been paid since mid-December...
...memorizing Newton's laws of motion, for example, students are led through experiments to conclude that the laws exist. But history is a can of worms: its "truths" tend to be value judgments, not physical facts. However much a superb teacher leads a student to true investigation, not timid indoctrination, the final conclusion is partly subjective...