Word: timide
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...argue the police. They claim that the boards would undermine police morale, impair efficiency, take authority away from police commanders, and give timid policemen an excuse for failing to deal forcibly enough with law violators. Furthermore, the police point out, a citizen already has many ways of registering gripes against police, including police complaint departments, local and federal courts and the FBI. The International Association of Chiefs of Police, which represents the nation's local law-enforcement officers, is dead set against review boards. So is the nation's top cop, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. Reporting...
ZORBA THE GREEK. The heart and soul of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel are brought roaringly to life by Anthony Quinn as the wicked old brute who teaches a timid essayist (Alan Bates) to put away his books and plunge into real trouble...
ZORBA THE GREEK. The heart and soul of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel are brought roaringly to life by Anthony Quinn, as the wicked old brute who teaches a timid essayist (Alan Bates) to put away his books and plunge into real trouble...
Like his father, Edgar rushes in where the timid fear to tread, following the company's slogan-"Find a need, and fill it." Optimism is the cornerstone of the Kaiser philosophy, and Edgar argues with folksy persuasion that the world's needs are bound to rise so fast that he would be foolish not to try to meet them...
Spanish or Quechua. Whatever the problems of the others, Peru has them all-and more. It is the biggest of the west-coast nations, the heart of the ancient Inca empire, and no place for the timid. "When you see no trees," said one 16th century Spanish navigator, "you have reached Peru." The seacoast capital, Lima, is bigger than Detroit, and sleek modern skyscrapers crowd in on some of the most magnificent Spanish architecture this side of Madrid. Yet 400,000 of its 2,000,000 citizens squat in festering slums, among them the infamous Planeta, built next...