Word: timide
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...Japanese housewife used to be a timid, tittering soul who knelt obediently at her husband's feet and spoke only when spoken to. But the women have now organized, and they can be a formidable power. This became painfully clear to the government last week when Miss Tsuruko Haruno, vice president of the Housewives Association of Japan, glared through her bifocals and charged that the Japanese family was about to be taken to the cleaners...
...give state-school students a better chance. Oxford's tutorials, says the report, have kept university dons too busy to prepare lectures properly, and should be cut back. Coordination would be aided by strengthening the powers of the operating chief, the university vice chancellor. Many other recommendations seem timid. For example, the report proposes that Oxford grow only by about 3,000 students over the next 20 years (to a total of 13,000), and increase its proportion of women students from 16% to merely...
...imponderables' or some such meaningless phrase. Accidental splashes of color or rags or sacking on canvas, the man will boldly tell you, is an art of great significance, and if you look at it long enough, 'will do something to you'; and we are all too timid to answer 'Nonsense...
...that seats in the tail are safer than those up front has a little basis in fact, but the passenger can do better by sitting close to an emergency exit. Above all, he should swallow his shyness and ask questions. He should not imitate Comedian Mort Sahl's timid traveler who would "rather die than look foolish." The annals of the air are filled with stories of people who led many other passengers out of a crash simply because they had troubled to find out about emergency doors...
Most congressional criticism of the federal anti-poverty program sounds bland and almost timid compared with Saul David Alinsky's views on the subject. Alinsky is a free-lance anti-poverty warrior and self-styled "professional radical" who has spent 27 of his 57 years in the business. "He thinks," says an OEO official, "that he owns the poor." To which Alinsky replies that the Administration program is "the greatest feeding trough that has come along for the welfare industry in years." Ridiculing the paper-sifting public-welfare bureaucracy, he once snorted: "If the road to hell is paved...