Word: timidation
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...Germany's initial hesitancy to support the anti-Iraq coalition may have helped produce Bonn's recent burst of assertive energy. The term gulf syndrome is applied to German leaders who, stung by criticism of their early reluctance to support Desert Storm, are determined never again to be thought timid. There is even some concern that Kohl is going too far in that direction. "Except for Hitler you have to go back a long way to find a German head of government who speaks so provocatively and insensitively about the outside world," says Heinrich Jaenecke, a columnist for the weekly...
...Life" opens with "Attack of the Moral Fuzzies," by Nancy Beverly. Pam Shores, with her wide nervous eyes, convincingly portrays Beth Ann, a timid contestant on the game show of life. Mike Efron, as the sleazy host Ramon, along with Jane Sperling, as his enticing assistant Miss Lowenthal, make a hilarious team as they present increasingly troublesome moral dilemmas: whether to buy a Japanese or American car, whether to appropriate tax money toward college grants or child care, whether to fund liver transplants for children or Medicare supplements for the elderly...
...players were timid and were too worried about making mistakes," Harvard Coach Ihsan Gurdal said...
With this self-conscious sense of her character's relationship to the audience, Packer pulls off this one-woman, two-act monologue, completely told from her perspective. We watch Shirley change from a timid, untraveled housewife into a contented and sophisticated isle-dweller. The audience cheers at her awaited sexual self-discovery with Costos, a hip Greek bistro owner. We applaud her decision to make a new life for herself on the island. By the end, the audience completely identifies with Shirley's declaration that she has not run from life but has found...
Framed by snow-capped mountains and an ice-blue sky, a 10-kg (22-lb.) adolescent California condor named Chocuyens poked his head out of a man-made nest on a rocky promontory in Southern California's Los Padres National Forest last week. With that timid move, he became the first member of his endangered species to return from captivity to the wild. Minutes later, his nestmate Xewe and two young Andean condors sent along as companions emerged. The birds jumped up and down and flapped their immense wings in an apparent preflight dance while jubilant naturalists watching from distant...