Word: timidation
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...Tories see little in Mr. Richerg's speech which will make us expand our moneyed interests in Wall Street. We old guardists see little assurance that our industries will be left free from competing relief projects to expand. We are very, very timid and need our president's voice to reassure...
Furthermore, if timid Mr. Caspar Milquetoast should sit down next to him in a train and commence, out of nervousness, to talk about the weather...
...bomb of scandal. They blew up the previous Cabinet by the same tactics, proved embezzlement on "subordinates" of sly old Finance Minister Takahashi (TIME, July 16). Although the old fox is again Finance Minister, for the seventh time, and although the new Cabinet is again riding them, the timid but persistent politicians last week maneuvered blunt War Minister General Hayashi into serious admissions...
...Casas in Mexico's State of Chiapas one day last week policemen and local officials entered one by one all the city's Roman Catholic Churches. While sextons looked on in timid alarm and, in one church, a woman tried to knife an official, the police roughly stripped the niches of their saintly statues, the walls and altars of their paintings and chromos, carried them all away to destruction...
...Harvard Union lost-and-found department, located in the downstairs check-room, keeps track of the hats and coats misplaced by Freshmen. These timid souls, who advertise on the bulletin-board. "Will the person who took BY MISTAKE a gray felt hat" usually find the lost article in the downstairs check-room, which returned over five hundred hats last year...