Word: timidation
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...also changed. No timid jade, once the job was his, he pushed Australian industry and manpower toward all-out effort. And he began to bellow at London...
Cure. At four, this boy still sucked his thumb and wet his bed, was afraid of dogs and so timid that he accepted protection from his two-year-old brother in fights with other children. But the mother responded to institute therapy, which encouraged mothers and children in outside interests. The boy, when last seen at age 15, was doing well at school, was a good swimmer, had a girl, showed every promise of leading a normal life...
...found joy in nothing else. Ling Tan too, who had once been unable to see a chicken die, killed without feeling. His daughter-in-law, Jade, managed, by poisoning some ducks, to kill off Japanese banqueters in the city. At Ling Tan's signal, slouching and timid crowds of villagers would suddenly fall upon, murder and bury any small enough group of enemy troops...
...reply to Labor's rumblings was entrusted to the Lord President of the Council's committee (headed by crusty Sir John Anderson) which coordinates the work of the import and export executive. Sir John, placating the Laborites with the assurance that the Government "will not be timid or halfhearted" about conscripting any property likely to help the war effort* offered a rather undiplomatic explanation of what he meant. Bumbled he: "All property is not equally valuable for the purpose of the war effort. For example, Old Masters, or stocks of wines and cigars...
...asked for advice on momentous issues by important people. The best of them, after an initial period of giddiness, learn to defend themselves against such social lures. But a worse temptation, thinks Correspondent Clark, is the temptation for a correspondent to become first over-dignified, then over-deferential, finally timid, with a "growing inclination to accept statements at their face value, to permit invidious remarks to go unchallenged...