Word: timide
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...graduate from Harvard Radcliffe are only familiar with their own concentrations. Mr. Melamed explains that "for concentration advising, students are referred to individual departments to consult experts in their subject. "However, whether it is because freshmen are not actually told of these advising resources or because they are too timid to search out the departments very few actually talk to these advisors who can give more helpful information than the proctor...
Early on, it was decided to forgo an emergency furnace, and some Massachusetts legislators question the wisdom of that decision. (A similar 20-story office in Toronto has taken the timid approach, with a steam-heat backup.) But Site Architect Spiros Pantazi brushes off all fears...
...Timid, tongue-tied, earnest to a fault, Gilbert de La Fayette did not seem bound for glory. He embarrassed himself on horseback, stumbled on the dance floor. But he had a fine old name, and after his father died when Gilbert was two years old and his mother when he was twelve, Gilbert came into a handsome fortune. Hating court life in the Versailles of Louis XV, the marquis went into the army. At 19, with only the briefest of military training, he set off to become a hero of the American Revolution...
...continue to strengthen his forces, mainly with training advisers, so that they can control more territory. Any such progress would, of course, give Washington a rationale for moving its Marines to safer positions or to withdraw them completely. Privately, however, some U.S. officials fear that Gemayel is too timid and preoccupied with his personal safety to make any decisive moves...
...timid, ostensibly non-brutal culture, the need to channel human aggression has always proved somewhat of a problem. The macabre nature of Spain's bullfights revolts us, and even our own ancestral tradition of duelling gives us chills. Instead, we prefer something more in the vein of a game, where sportsmanship and fun--not victory and blood--are the central factors. The all-American solution to what we consider an un-American trait of violence has become football...