Word: timidation
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...Like a timid swimmer dabbling his toes in the sea, Britain has hesitated to work for full economic, political and military union with Western Europe. The familiar warmth of the imperial sun that never sets felt too cozy to make a plunge attractive...
...wife of Francis J. McCormick,* a prospering Dayton engineer and importer, she went along on his European buying trips, studied every country they visited, wrote a few pieces for the Times magazine section. In 1921, when they were about to sail for Europe once again, she jotted a timid note to the late, great Carr V. Van Anda, Times managing editor, asking if she might send him some dispatches from abroad. Van Anda wired her: "Try it." She did and impressed him with her shrewd judgment of Benito Mussolini ("Italy is hearing the master's voice") when other correspondents...
...overlook any presidential candidate on the grounds of small, personal prejudice? Shouldn't we instead study the factual achievements of his case history? If MacArthur pats himself on the back, who knows, we may find he has a right to. It doesn't harm us much, and certainly a timid man won't get far with Russia. Forrest Powers...
...proposing a One-World government and world constitution; that would take too much time - more time, he thinks, than the world has. He is young enough to feel that his elders are timid, and mature enough to know that the present uneasy peace cannot last. And he is being heard. He disregards cynics. He thinks of himself as a practical realist and considers optimism foolish but hope necessary. "If this hope is naive," he says, "then it is naive to hope...
...University stood solidly hostile. Dean bender emphasized that "the real purpose seems to be to intimidate people. If the Barnes Bill existed, it couldn't be enforced, but it could very well make teachers timid, cautions, and conformist when what we need today is a constantly vigorous independent outlook...