Word: timidation
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...university need not squirm because one of its professors publicly opposes the pet policy of seedy politicians who immodestly call themselves statesmen. A radical, wild-eyed communist does not enhance the reputation of his Alma Mater, but on the other hand the timid scholar who buries himself and his wisdom in dusky library stacks likewise does little in this direction. Professors who state their candid opinions clearly and back them up with sensible arguments certainly are not "agitators...
...remainder of the ballots are pretty evenly distributed between Flash Gordon and his rocket gun, Blondie and her troublesome babe and husband, Webster's Timid Soul, and daring detective Dick Tracy. Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, must content himself with being the choice of a single...
...evening the Sullivans walked around the corner from their Wyoming Avenue home to the Hoovers' house on S Street, helped entertain the Hoover friends. When, in 1929, the Hoovers moved to the big White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, the intimacy continued. Never have President and journalist been closer. Timid and distrustful of newshawks in general. President Hoover put Pundit Sullivan in his "Medicine Ball Cabinet," had him to breakfasts, took him on fishing trips,* called him often to the White House for long, confidential talks. Result was that Mark Sullivan became, to other Washington correspondents' envy and chagrin...
...Rabbi Samuel Schulman of Manhattan: The common sense of the people is bewildered by the tremendous increase of the expense of government. . . . The business sense of the people is timid. . . . The sense of the American people for the spiritual values of the American heritage is disquieted. There is a feeling that we are drifting from the spirit of American institutions...
...Conclusive proof of this lies strewn over the recent newspapers and echoes through the lecture halls: the Teachers' Oath Bill. The teaching profession in Massachusetts was badly hipped because it was utterly incapable of looking after its own interests. Certainly regulation by papers is preferable to that imposed by timid little boys wearing paper caps of red, white, and blue bunting. It is too early to pass judgment on the merits of the Teachers' Union. But it is high time to consider it as a means of providing the defense becoming increasingly necessary...