Word: timidation
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Governor James F. Byrnes: "No man knows what the Kremlin will do. But I know that the Soviet leaders understand only the language of force. A firm stand by a united people may deter them from war. A timid course by a divided people will certainly encourage them to make...
...India last week, an official of the Dalai Lama's court described the bloodless conquest of Tibet by the Chinese Communists. His story could be read as a sort of parable of how Communism vanquishes the isolated, the timid and the unwary...
...Kirkes would chat together whenever they met, but Ross never took the Senteney murder file off the top of his desk. One day last September, a woman reported that Kirkes had tried to molest her ten-year-old son. The sheriff jailed Kirkes and prayed that some timid murder witnesses might turn up, now that the big ex-cop was locked...
...been called soft and tough, resourceful and unskilled, unbelievably brave and unbelievably timid, thoroughly disciplined and scornful of discipline. One way or another, all of these generalizations are valid. He is a peculiar soldier, product of a peculiar country. His two outstanding characteristics seem to be contradictory. He is more of an individualist than soldiers of other nations, and at the same time he is far more conscious of, and dependent on, teamwork. He fights as he lives, a part of a vast, complicated machine-but a thinking, deciding part, not an inert...
...Dean Acheson's State Department was standing fast against a deal with the Chinese Reds. The U.S. (despite some timid souls in high places, including the Pentagon) was still pledged to destroy all Communist forces in Korea and drive all the way to the Manchurian frontier...