Word: timidation
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Kohl has been criticized for timid handling of Germany's part in the gulf war and apparent callousness about the plight of eastern Germans, 21% of whom are effectively unemployed. But it was his turnabout on taxes that sank his party's fortunes in western Germany, where three-quarters of the voters live. He promised last year that unification could be financed without new taxes, but the immense and growing costs have instead forced him to raise taxes. As of July 1, the average German will pay 7.5% more...
...colors -- bright, sensuous, all enveloping -- tell the story of a young Chinese woman, her brutal husband and her timid lover. Fate enshrouds them, as it has Zhang Yimou's beautiful film: Ju Dou has never played publicly in China, and the authorities tried unsuccessfully to rescind its Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Film...
ROYAL BALLET. Though generally timid about touring, Britain's premiere troupe is venturing to Washington D.C. with Swan Lake, two Frederick Ashton classics and the company's 1989 hit, The Prince of the Pagodas. March...
...Good! Good!" Brown shouts, trying to encourage the timid. The scraping of razor-sharp blades on ice continues as Brown reminds the students about that all too important law of gravity: "Don't get too far forward, alright? Otherwise it's kissing-the-ice time...
Pale sunlight streams into the spare classroom of Richard Clark, an Anglo English teacher. Clark, an austere-looking man with a crew cut and a deeply lined face, has been teaching at the academy for nine years. At the blackboard, several sophomores are diagraming sentences. A timid girl with glasses identifies a predicate phrase modifying a compound verb. When she's finished, Clark scans the room and says with a wry smile, "Paulette, you're the next volunteer." Paulette, a tiny girl with a large pompadour, dutifully marches to the blackboard and, in a spidery hand, diagrams a sentence with...