Word: timidation
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Other lands have adopted V for Victory, but we should adopt VV for Vicarious Victory. The following formula may bring it, if the traditional luck of fools is granted also to the timid...
...answer your interesting letter . . . and to say most emphatically that TIME should not go into the business of feeding a lot of pap to Latin Americans. They know plenty about our faults and it is absurd to try to cover these faults for the sake of a few timid people at home...
Whether or not the Presidential order will really plug all these loopholes depends on how it is administered. To be 100% effective, its administrator would need power to make drastic and speedy decisions in every question of international finance that arose, without any advice from timid souls in the State Department. State's point of view was represented in the current orders by the tender treatment of Spain and Russia as compared to Italy and Germany, and by the fact that Japan was not mentioned at all. If & when the President sets up a ministry of economic warfare...
...resolution added: "Mr. President, by your declaration of a national emergency you challenged these rights. You overede the will of the people. We are not the 'timid few'. We are the majority of the American people. We shall continue to use our democratic rights to intensify the fight against military dictatorship, against conveys, against...
...Wanted Wings (Paramount] takes a trio of characters native to any military movie-the unreconstructed moneybags with a string of polo ponies (Ray Milland), the timid misfit (William Holden), the carefree clown (Wayne Morris)-and hurries them through the five-month training course at Randolph and Kelly Fields in Texas. Along with the studious documentation of a trainee's tribulations are funny and tense shots of the first shaky hours in the air, spectacular panoramas of scores of planes in formation, a gasp-making exhibition of hedgehopping over the Texas countryside. And after graduation there is a mock night...