Word: timide
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...then they turn to Frank, who stands poised for action beside the cash register. Short and slight with a round, boyish face, he flashes a timid smile at a student whose face he recognizes from a previous evening. Beads of sweat along Frank's forehead glisten in the fluorescent light from the price board above him. He lightly touches the forehead that is growing at the expense of his receding hairline. "Very good. Mushroom pizza, for here or go?" he asks in a quiet, heavily accented voice...
...ambitious project had been stalled for a decade-until the developer, the U.S.'s Collins Tuttle & Co., in 1969 recognized that only a well-connected Frenchman could sweep away the bureaucratic snarls and inspire the confidence of timid French financiers. The firm took on Aaron, the president of a small bank, as co-developer. Aristocratic, war-decorated Aaron, 57, steered the project through a thicket of government regulations. He also helped to stitch together an all-French syndicate of 40 banks, insurance companies and pension funds to finance it. Aaron not only received a fee for his services...
When a special prosecutor is appointed, it should be Archibald Cox. Cox is better aquainted with the case than anyone else and he is able and willing to prosecute the case to the full extent of the law as a more timid and less honest person might not be. Most significantly, he has already shown his strength of will in the face of Nixon's attempt to interfere with the course of justice...
Efforts to limit free speech can succeed only when aimed at the timid; the Law Forum's actions will encourage future attempts to put restraints on the right of free speech...
Whether the American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, Mr. William J. Barber, is "timid" or not has nothing to do with the matter. As much as I would like to see the restriction removed, I have to take into account, as a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust, that Mr. Rhodes' will stipulated that his money should be used for scholarships only for "male" students, and an Act of Parliament in 1946 imposed the same restriction on the Rhodes Scholarships. If Mr. Barber tried to break this law, the Rhodes Trustees would have to get another American Secretary...