Word: timidation
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...live to see the story, he, as U. P.'s general European manager, was partly responsible for developing the channels which made it possible for U. P.'s account of the bursting Blitzkrieg to reach the U. S. nearly three hours ahead of other reports.*A timid cub of 19 when he went to Chicago in 1912 from Dowagiac, Mich., Webster Miller got a job on the American's police beat. He cut his first name for euphony, soon hid his timidity. When in 1916 Pershing went into Mexico after Villa, Webb Miller went along. United Press...
...sounds like a great idea but without a considerable smattering of indifference it would be decidedly risky. To a Harvard man it might be enough to "picture" a man in his B.V.D.'s, and let it go at that. Decorum would be preserved, except in the mind of one timid fellow, busy with his visions, wondering whether that blustering professor facing him prefers red flannels or striped silk, front or back buttons. Perhaps a nervous giggle, an appraising glance over the rim of his highball glass, and it would all be over. Conversation would again flow unchecked...
Although Freshmen are notoriously unfamiliar with their academic surroundings they are as Seniors when compared with the timid individual who next fall will enter these sacred precincts. No sooner has each poor, benighted lad gone through the ordeal of Board exams than he is besieged with printed matter from the college of his choice. Completely unnerved by the exams, he diligently reads the reams of material with which the denizens of University Hall flood the mail. These loyal members of Harvard's official staff all through the winter repress their urge for self-expression knowing that with the first spring...
...Corps can safely do without 2,100 reserve planes which were included in the Army's 1941 goal of 5,500, let France and Great Britain have new planes (but not new, secret devices) which otherwise would soon become obsolescent and have to be replaced. Timid Mr. Woodring, who had opposed just such a policy last year, insisted last week that the new policy is now his. "I am not very easily pushed around," said the push-happy Secretary...
Lukas (cynical Convict Hessler), J. Edward Bromberg (timid Convict Flaubert), Albert Dekker (bossy Convict Moll...