Word: timidation
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Promptly from Mr. Bertram Brown came this reply: I don't care about Murillo And Da Vinci leaves me cold; I don't go for Dufy's paintings Done in timid strokes or bold -// Giotto was neurotic, If Utrillo was too meek, I remain quite unaffected As to each of them's technique...
Reaching Sanare, the throng poured into the sports stadium. There stood a wonderful brute of a tractor, aflutter with flags and painted a fire-engine red. The timid countrymen hung back, black eyes shining-although as members of the Friends of Sanare Society, they were all part-owners of the tractor...
...present grandstands on Soldiers' Field are not alone decidedly ugly, but positively dangerous, and the very sight of a piece of fire apparatus behind the stands at a big football game has made many persons timid...
...story with this rueful notice to readers: "It is impossible to present any adequate summary of the findings without giving unnecessary offense to many in [our] large family of readers . . . For those who want it," the Bulletin added helpfully, "the book itself will be available next month." Slightly less timid, the Raleigh Times ran no story but offered galley proofs of the wire-service account to any readers who wanted them, gave away more than 900 by week...
...timid, thankful repatriates told their stories at Munsan and Inchon last week, one fact became increasingly clear: the Chinese Communists have waged a ceaseless battle for the minds of their captives. Whatever cruel or gentle things the Chinese did, their purpose was to convince the P.W.s that the U.S. started the war, that the Chinese "volunteers" were their friends, that the U.S. was conducting germ warfare and had massacred North Korean and Chinese prisoners. "Physically," one ex-prisoner said of his Chinese camp, "it was all right, but mentally it was damn rough." Almost to a man, the returnees reported...