Word: timide
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...already traveling at more than 40 m.p.h., and a force of several G's tore at his body as he hit the hollow where Australian Ross Milne lost control in practice and hurtled to his death. Next came a treacherous se ries of bumps: unlike more timid competitors, who hugged the surface, using their legs as shock absorbers, Zimmermann boldly catapulted over the bumps with great, bounding leaps of 45 ft. or more. Crouching low, he plunged headlong down an almost vertical precipice; his speed shot up to 60 m.p.h., his skis chattered, and the wind whistled through...
...surface, and cameras are also reaching far back into the past. A nine-lens aerial spy produced by Itek will soon begin searching out ancient Mayan and Incan ruins in the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala. It will also be used to study the behavior patterns of a timid tribe of Mexican Indians-believed to be direct descendants of the Mayans-by spying on them from...
...increasing prevalence of metal desks, typing tables and wall trimmings, which are brisk conductors of any static charges that anybody can scuff up. Driest days are the worst. When the humidity falls below 20%, executives view every steel-framed desk chair as a potential hot seat, and handshakes are timid...
...fully recovered from the resounding crash it took on Blue Monday, May 28, 1962. Many economists thought that the best that 1963 had in store was a business sag-hopefully too mild to call a recession-that would begin before midyear. Government forecasters were willing to project only a timid 4% growth in the G.N.P., which would bring it up to $578 billion...
...last night and all this morning it rained in Cambridge. Tiger Coach Vic Colman sat in his motel room mumbling unhappily about a wet field. One timid Radcliffe girl wondered if curling up and going to sleep might not make more sense than getting soaked at the stadium...