Word: timidation
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...Customers Be Damned. Mr. Morgenthau is very high-principled, very modest about his limited financial ability, very timid. His daring move in sticking to 2% was out of character for him but not for his New Deal advisers. Those advisers were not worried about the consequences. They are quite sure that the banks will continue to take Government offerings, at almost any price, and that they do not have to worry about giving the banks what they want. Their attitude is: This is war; the banks have to buy our offerings, they have no choice, nor any other...
...fantastic story involves a timid map-maker, Charles Butterworth, who comes home one day to find his whole family engaged in war work of one kind or another. Trying to keep in step, he gets pushed around mercilessly until he conceives the idea of trapping the Jap fleet with a phoney map of Shangri-La. After an interlude in a Jap internment camp done with extremely poor taste, the map is found to be genuine; but Papa saves the day by informing the U. S. forces of some nearby islands that would rise above water on the next...
...irreconcilable worlds. One is the world of Caesar: petty officials, petty sycophants, sentimental housewives, craven husbands, tame-cat priests, small landowners who "would boil the Sacred Ribs of Jesus in the tears of Our Lady of Sorrows if they could make a broth of them"-in short, the dull, timid, heartless, ambitious mass of whom, in Silone's opinion, life is chiefly made. The other is the world of God: the only world in which fearlessness and friendship are possible, and almost nothing else is. In Silone's cosmography there is also a limbo, the sea-bottom world...
...novel, They Went On Together, dealt with refugees being machine-gunned in one of those nameless countries which are Novelist Nathan's today's special. The Sea-Gull Cry is less portentous. A blonde young Polish countess is living in an abandoned scow on Cape Cod. A timid, tender, middle-aged professor visits her. After an infinitesimal tiff, they fall in love. That, except for a pair of pleasant children and a brace of pungent New Englanders, is all. The thousands of Nathan readers will find The Sea-Gull Cry pleasant summer reading. Others may be reminded...
During the week Winston Churchill conferred with the King on the question of a second front. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden admitted that an overwhelming majority of Britons wanted an offensive in Europe; he promised that history would not be able to describe the British as "a little, timid people, sheltering on our island." But these moves apparently were not enough...