Word: timidation
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...packet a day as it was. By last week most Britons figured that they might lose everything even if Britain won, that they would surely lose everything if not; and they were prepared to devote much more than was asked to national defense. The News Chronicle called the budget "Timid and tinkering." The Daily Mirror'?, acid "Cassandra" wrote: "It's like its creator-chubby, cheery, ineffective, unimaginative and hopelessly inadequate. It limps far behind public demand." In plainer sight than ever was the plan of liberal Economist John Maynard Keynes to appropriate a part of everybody...
...Though timid cinemaddicts who dislike having boys in the house may be dismayed by a Rugby whose youthful masculinity is as unembellished as an old sneaker, even they will find homely, button-nosed Jimmy Lydon an improvement over the standard Hollywood juvenile. A veteran of WPA drama and radio serials, he was ousted in the finals of Producer David Selznick's hunt for a Tom Sawyer. He and Freddie Bartholomew raced to work in their cars every morning until Lydon bowled over an R. K. O. watchman and Producer Towne threatened to put them both...
Julia de Saegher, child of Courtrai in 1918, do you remember how blessed you made the Sundays of its prisoners within the white-washed walls of the gendarmerie, by your precious, timid visits and generous gifts of bread...
...Timid citizens were frightened out of their wits when they ran info bruisers in Nazi uniforms swaggering down the Hollywood streets. This was no evidence of a fifth column in California, but an outward sign that the studios have sensed a new market, are furiously manufacturing anti-Nazi films like M. G. M.'s Escape and Mortal Storm, Fox's Four Sons and I Married a Nazi...
Less fierce than the Comanches or the Shawnees, they were by no means timid. They spent four days of dancing with clayed faces, of solemn Homeric boasting, building up to war. Scalps were the premium, but the glory was in guile, and a leader was less honored for scalps than for bringing back his own warriors alive. Their religion and their warfare were profoundly related; one of Tixier's most moving passages tells of the last solemn ceremonies with the warbirds. Their apathy in easy times, their resourcefulness and stamina under stress were both beyond the measure of white...