Word: timidation
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...Japanese Garden, with the Turkish flag hanging in it, was a beautiful sight to witness, and was well worth walking across the hall for. It was a likely retreat for timid folks and couple after couple could be seen creeping up the stairs to this garden with its scent of Skunk...
Belated wayfarers along North Harvard Street have become timid these cold nights. They report that as they pass the Soldiers Field fence opposite the new Business School the have heard ghostly voices in the darkness, and the occasional ring of a bell. Investigation in the archives of Allston has found no record of a bell-ringing spectre that haunts the southern edge of the Lars Anderson Bridge...
...document." President Taft, after ordering the clause on the recall of judges removed, signed the new constitution. Arizona became a state; Mr. Hunt became Governor, forthwith added the recall as an amendment. His career has been both stormy and paradoxical- hated by many, but seldom defeated, silent but aggressive, timid among friends but fearless among enemies, lusty cowpuncher foe of gamblers. Even his mustache is a paradox-once frowsy, now neatly waxed...
...into a picture, his fancy slips cricket-wise into the subject, in small surprising lines that never reveal what they are about until they have done it. Some are firm lines with tiny hairs on them, like a cricket's thigh. Some are more delicate and hesitant, like timid creatures creeping from crannies. Some are wry and perverse, like a witch's pin or a bat's flight. None are straightforward or prosaic. Together, colored over and shaded in with pale washes, they create pictures of a world, half small-animal, half fairy, in which...
...brave enough to buy the book after they learn that the long, frank fourth chapter is on "Homosexuality." There is even the statement: "If man is polygamous, woman is polyandrous," with the usual demonstration that each is nothing of the kind. If that fails to reassure the timid, let them turn to "Do Characters in Fiction Behave Like Human Beings" for fresh proof that this doctor's interests and understanding can reach from Harold Bell Wright to Anatole France without losing sight of actual human conduct. Let them examine "The Fundamentalists and Modernists of Psychology" and be assured that...