Word: timide
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Labor unions? They're as lost in today's economy as velociraptors would be in a later-than-Jurassic environment. As the smokestack industries that they once dominated declined, unions have been losing members and influence for decades. Those remaining are too timid even to strike much anymore, and when they do they usually lose. They are toothless dinosaurs on the way to becoming fossils...
...were sniping at him and talking up their own generals, especially the star of North Africa: Montgomery, victor over Germany's General Rommel, the Desert Fox. "They don't use the words initiative or boldness in talking of me," Eisenhower wrote. "It wearies me to be thought of as timid, when I've had to do things that were so risky as to be almost crazy...
Bachrach said that, unlike Roosevelt and Barrett, he is "not timid about supporting a progressive, graduated income tax." Such a tax would make people with higher incomes pay a higher tax rate...
There was a time, some 40 years ago, when Harvard was less fearful of taking a public stand, less timid about defending the truth. In the 1950s, the University, under president James Bryant Conant, denounced McCarthyism in a bold public statement. Stepping into its role as a leading American institution, Harvard looked controversy squarely...
...those too poor to visit St. Bart's and too timid to ski Killington this break, a perfect getaway lies just three miles off Cape Cod--not the faraway island of Nantucket, but nearby Martha's Vineyard...