Word: timidation
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...months since she had come to the U.S., timid, troubled Ava Miller had tried almost every way she knew to find her one remaining relative, her brother-in-law's sister, who had been in New York City for 14 years. Ava knew that Anna Sobel had married an American doctor, but she did not know his name. Last week, 28-year-old Ava, a refugee from the Nazi invaders of Poland, visited the vast, murmurous city room of the New York Times, looking for help. It was her last hope...
That holdup gave the bankers pause. It gave more than that to tall, timid Leo Schramer, 41-year-old cashier. Said his uncle, Bank President William Schramer last week: "That poor cashier is a nervous wreck. Why, Leo's lost 20 pounds since the last holdup...
...impulse, he persuaded suspicious Soviet bureaucrats to part with six of the best canvases in the magnificent Hermitage collection in Leningrad (including Rubens' Portrait of Hellena Fourment, Rembrandt's Athena and Flemish Dierick Bouts's The Annunciation), thus opening the way for bids from more timid collectors and dealers...
With this sentence, Franz Kafka begins The Metamorphosis, a novelette filled with the Czech author's own terrified and terrifying sense of life. Gregor Samsa, a timid, unsuccessful salesman slaving for his family feels rejected and unwanted. At the end, he hears his sister say of his insect-self, "We must try to get rid of it." The Metamorphosis appears, with 43 other Kafka stories and "short pieces," in The Penal Colony, a collection recently published in the U.S. Like the more famous novels, The Trial and The Castle (TIME, April 28, 1947), all the stories are marked with...
Countess Kristina, who is the heroine of the first half of the book, becomes Emperor Karl's secret agent in World War I; her scurryings around in Parisian underthings, waving secret documents, make Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd look like a timid traveler in an old suit of B.V.D.s. When Kristina collapses into the arms of Spain's Alfonso XIII, her sister, Countess Zia, takes over for the between-wars decades. When at last, after more than 700 pages, Hitler and the Russians start divvying up what's left of the Dukay world, many a reader...