Word: timidation
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...there is more plaguing the reclusive leader than mere palace intrigue. North Korea's timid economic reforms have failed to revive a flatlining economy, fueling only a surge in prices. This, coupled with a still insufficient food supply, led two United Nations agencies to estimate last week that foreign aid will be needed to feed more than a quarter of the country's population next year...
...trudged across the river during his freshman year to bench and squat as much as was humanly possible. Though the outgoing ‘Italian Stallion’ grin has never left his face, Martignetti’s beastly 200-plus pound frame has been reduced to a timid 165 pounds...
...SETUP Gerard is a timid librarian whose only real friend is his pen pal, a beautiful Englishwoman named Alice, who is, sadly, confined to a wheelchair after a horrific car accident. They've been sending passionate (and frankly kind of sexy) letters to each other since they were 13, but they've never actually met. In fact, Alice refuses to let Gerard come to visit her. Does she have some connection to Gerard's creepy, semi-insane mom, who's also English? And to those Victorian horror tales that Gerard keeps stumbling across? What's she hiding, anyway? The answers...
...help but be a little bit timid because the original is so great. I actually tried not to watch too much of [Ricky Gervais'] performance because it's so good it's hard to get out of your head...
...just the reports. For a while, the knives have been out for Tenet on all sides. Within the Bush Administration, Defense Department hawks have been insisting for years that the CIA was making timid evaluations of evidence about Saddam Hussein's weapons capability or possible ties to al-Qaeda. On the other side, critics of the war say Tenet did not resist strongly enough the alleged pressure to provide the White House with pretexts it needed for an invasion of Iraq that it had already decided upon. It all came to a head in April with the publication...