Word: timidation
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...Lewis was still king of the coal miners. "All we got, we owe to him," said a miner with finality. "Twenty years ago we worked 20 hours for $2; now we get $15 for eight, that's what." But the king, it was plain, was no longer above timid, hesitant reproach. It wasn't too safe to criticize him openly: the old men didn't dare risk being blackballed by the union; they were too near pension time. And a coal miner's wife in Cinderella, W. Va., who wrote a letter to the editor protesting...
CRIMSON'S "After the Trial" editorial of October 20, raises a very timid and blushing doubt on the constitutionality of the Smith Act and goes on to question loyalty case procedure. It isn't that it makes much difference whether Communists are jailed or federal workers fired for political beliefs; the big issue is whether everything is done with "procedural safeguards." A yawn from the writer and the piece is done...
Based on a Broadway misinterpretation of Henry James's Washington Square, the film shows a timid, plain heiress (Olivia de Havilland) courted by a charming idler (Montgomery Clift). Her father (Ralph Richardson), who regards her as a hopelessly unlovable girl, turns her into just that. Using her inheritance as a weapon, he drives off the fortune hunter and blasts her only chance of happiness. The Heiress is something less than the stern and oppressive tragedy James wrote (for one thing, Olivia de Havilland's seductive shyness and warmth make her an unconvincing candidate for spinsterhood), but it still...
...significant finding of the project was that timid, reticent, below-average students showed a much greater tendency to "come out of their shells," and join group activities and discussions; and far more chances presented themselves for above-average students to exercise leadership and responsibility. Both sides of the desk-teachers and students-profited by a much happier, more productive learning situation all around. Most important, the California project's gains were not won at the expense of traditional achievements...
...years in the presidency, Harry S. Truman, onetime Field Artillery captain, had twice reviewed units of both the Navy and the Air Force. But the Army, he jokingly concluded, remained "rather timid, and remembering that I was a battery commander, has always felt a little backward about asking me to look at a review ..." Finally he picked up his telephone and told Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray that he wanted to watch the ground forces do their stuff...