Word: timidation
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...wrong in sensing major changes in the market. Thus such chartists as Jacques Coe, senior partner of Jacques Coe & Co., keep close tab on whether the public is buying or selling by watching the trading in odd lots (fewer than 100 shares). Coe contends that the public is timid about buying as the market rises, usually buys heaviest near...
...stock market drifted lower over five of the past seven weeks, traders waited for the "selling climax" that would clear out the timid at one swoop, lay the groundwork for an advance. Last week the climax came. Sliding to its lowest point in ten months, the market suddenly plunged lower; selling was heavy, the tape ran minutes late on the downside, and the Dow-Jones industrial average gave up six points in less than two hours. Then, just as suddenly, the market turned about and headed upward in a broad and spirited rally. It continued to rally for the rest...
...based his tortured opera on two plays (Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora) by erotic, tormented Frank Wedekind (1864-1918). In German Playwright Wedekind's mind-and in Berg's-Lulu is an amalgam of all the contradictory feminine instincts: she is innocent and worldly, timid and rapacious, sentimental and heartless. Before the garishly painted curtain rises on a circus ring, a ringmaster invites the audience to witness the spectacle of the human circus, then calls: "Bring in our snake." In comes an assistant carrying Lulu, dressed in long black stockings and a close-fitting satin...
...receives the impression that Harvard is too timid to proclaim before its alumni and the nation that which it really represents. All that one knows for certain is that each year during graduation, Cabots, Cardinals, and, yes, even Republicans are brought out of mothballs and then, a week later, promptly forgotten for another year...
...Midwestern lawyer tells Gittel: "I said [you are] a beautiful girl; I didn't mean skin-deep-there you're a delight. Anyone can see. And underneath is a street brawler. That some can see. But under the street brawler is something as fresh and crazy and timid as a colt." And that, right now, is probably as good a description of Anna Maria Italiano as can be found...