Word: timidation
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...Some men on both sides are so hungry for officership and so timid about hurting the feelings of some other leaders whom they know are in the wrong-that they will not help to bring about an agreement...
...recalled Admiral Jellicoe ("an obstinate man . . . fundamentally weak, he did not even carry out orders when they were given to him"), Herbert Asquith ("no war minister . . . able, but no man of action"), Foch ("simple, honorable, and absolutely fearless"), Bonar Law ("not a man of action"), Ramsay MacDonald ("too timid"), and "Blockhead (Stanley) Baldwin." On Britain's conduct of the current war: "I sometimes wonder what we are doing. Here we are in the fourth year of the war and we've hardly tackled our main enemy, Germany...
...five years, under the good-natured, timid leadership of Conductor Barbirolli, it acted like a willful nag without a rider. When the directors supplemented Conductor Barbirolli with a string of famous guest conductors, the orchestra became more balky and independent than ever. The visiting conductors began to refer to its undisciplined and arrogant members as "the Dead End Kids." Meanwhile, one-man orchestras like Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony and Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony continued to take top honors. This year even the Philharmonic's board got around to thinking that the Philharmonic probably needed...
...jail, Mrs. Thompson explained that her stepson, age ten, said the teacher had kicked him in the back. Friends of shy, timid Zelda Meisels said that was preposterous - she had merely scolded...
...these hard truths in London last week. But on his past record he will probably continue to think about war financing in terms of the cheap-money theories of the '30s-will go on trying to fight a war boom as if trying to fight a depression. And timid Mr. Morgenthau in sticking to his fetish of 2% is likely to find that either he has to take control over the entire credit system of the nation or add to the inflationary fires...