Word: timidation
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What Lamar and Frank Swirles said about Navy made Hitler, Superman, and Punjab sound like timid Plebes. Henry began to apologize after the second man's description for using the same words over again, but apparently there are only a limited number of descriptive terms like "terrific" while the Navy has an unlimited number of men worthy of praise...
Unlike the two Harvard men who went in the bus with the group the other day because they expected a tour of the plant and a visit to the battleship Massachusetts, the youthful organizers take their work very seriously. And it's no job for the timid...
Since the turn of the century, however, all ventures outside the bounds of the U.S. had acquired a bad name. By 1939 the imperialism ("Manifest Destiny") of 1898 had been long regarded as a pain in the bowels and conscience of the U.S. The timid internationalism of World War I was a spinster memory, pressed like a dead flower between the forlorn pages of the League of Nations...
...know, bluntly, why Britain did not get right into the ring where the Bear's hug was tying up Hitler. Some of them, remembering Winston Churchill's responsibility for the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of World War I, wondered whether that memory could possibly be making their leader timid...
...People are a little terrified at going into an art gallery. They feel that they are surrounded by professionals who make them timid. But no one has ever had an inferiority complex about going into a department store...