Word: timide
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...floss ($5) to an examination with X rays and consultation ($55). In Oakland, Dr. Ernie Lavorini will gladly tattoo a butterfly or a flower on caps being fitted (there is an extra charge for the artwork). So far Dr. Craig Rosenberg of Huntington Beach, Calif., has been more timid. "I'm still not used to a lot of it. Dressing up in costumes, wearing funny hats, is too much for me right now. Maybe it won't be some day. I could do dentistry in a funny hat as well as I can in a smock...
...week earlier, the Crimson had upset a surprised Boston University squad, deftly battling its way to a 5-3 win and the second spot in the annual women's Beanpot tournament. While the Yale game typified the frustration the icewomen experienced all season--an unsynchronized offense, timid backchecking, and hesitation in front of the net--the B.U. game showed that individual talent could coalesce to overwhelm Harvard's opponents when the squad mustered up a bit of confidence...
This country's halting and timid approach to the development of nuclear power [Sept. 22] will lead to an international showdown over energy just as certainly as the Munich appeasement led to the second World War. When the energy shortage really hits, the classic basis for armed conflict will be established. Of what value to President Carter will his environmentalist constituency be then? Howard L. Vener Marblehead, Mass...
Like all lecturers, he uses his first-day speech to cover his grand designs for the course. "What do you think leadership is?" he asks the class. One answer, a little timid: "Does it mean when someone can make other people do something they don't want to?" Henderson looks around the room, unsatisfied. Another reply, this time more confident: "It means having the respect of others and influence over them," a red-headed boy says. But Henderson just pauses, stares at his desk, glances at the class, and then says, "Class, leadership really boils down to the golden rule...
...first half of the play, the town officials perform a "Kitchen Symphony" on pots, frying pans, and water-coolers; after the intermission, they bring up the curtain with a solemn, processional concerto grosso for kazoo. Music seems somehow a more congenial way for these characters to communicate the timid ridiculousness of their lives than words...