Word: timidation
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Latest name for flashing light, alias "blinding bulb." Now the pensive Mr. Lange comes up with "flickering filament.". . Bad Habits Department: K. W. Deadler's insistence on reserving his timid and apologetic queries until just on the hour when it's time for the smoking lamp to light...
...pursues a timid barber whose sexual career has been sparse if not Spartan...
...housed. He gets to his small eighth-floor office about 9, reads papers and his mail until n, when the day's editorial conference starts. As editor, he attends it religiously, sits at the table head in his shirt sleeves, leads the discussion. At first he was timid, usually ending suggestions with a querulous, English-accented "What do you fellows think?" Now he has become surer of himself and of what he wants the Sun to stand...
...Timid Monopoly. Minister of Information Brendan Bracken remarked on this depressing shade recently in the House of Commons, invited "a complete examination of the whole setup of the BBC" before renewing its charter. Commons adjourned without committing itself, but the solid, thoughtful Economist snapped up Bracken's invitation. Said the Economist...
...Behind this conception of massed effort, and the great effort necessary to prepare it, is a fundamental tenet of British and U.S. planning: no second front, in the Mediterranean or elsewhere, will be attempted until it is almost certain to succeed. The Russians may think this conception is over-timid and wrong. Others, like Airman de Seversky, think it overlooks opportunities to shorten the war by sharper, more imaginative strategy. But, for better or for worse, it is the adopted conception...