Word: timidation
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...magazine, and for a number of undergraduate writers it has served as a stepping stone to more lucrative satisfaction. Another aid to undergraduate writing is the board's criticism of pieces submitted, a thing of no small value to the young writer, who is always anxious, although often timid, about hearing reactions to his work...
...this week passed his 2,500th hour on the air, topping the endurance record of even durable Howdy Doody (2,080 hours). In the years of Garroway's climb, the medium which now carries his placating gestures into 1,800,000 homes each day, has grown from a timid experiment, originating largely in Chicago, to a giant phenomenon dominating U.S. living rooms from coast to coast. Last week, perhaps in deference to its veteran, the whole industry seemed as relaxed as Garroway...
...offered a timid program in some important areas, but it was mostly copied from the Democrats. The only new program it has put forward was for the construction of highways, and it botched that one by proposing to finance it with a bonanza to the Wall Street financiers-a bond issue. In other areas this Republican Administration has actually moved backward. It is dominated and controlled by Big Business-which it allows to plunder our natural resources...
...equipment overboard, worked the pumps until they dropped, and strained mightily at the capstan so that on the second high tide, the Endeavour was pulled free. Even then the ship would have sunk to the bottom if Cook had not been canny-and humble- enough to accept a timid midshipman's suggestion that he draw a dung-and-oakum-smeared sail under the ship and over a shattered spot in the bottom. Pressure clotted the sail to the hole, and the Endeavour and her men were saved. Though the East Australia coast was only 25 miles away, Cook...
Deterrence Without Bellicosity. When the political reviews of the television performance were in, some politicians on Capitol Hill thought that Dulles and the President were too bold about the international situation and others thought that they were too timid. Some pundits clucked that crucial international issues should not be discussed on such an informal show. But it was clear that Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles had done a remarkably good job of explaining U.S. foreign policy in a way that the people...