Word: timidity
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...feel guilty or timid about applying anything I've suggested. The stereo industry, through differentiation of product, is trying to exploit your ignorance about electronic equipment. No dealer is ever selling an item below cost and it's your right to get the lowest price...
Hint of Eroticism. There is also a subplot involving Shanks' assistant (Cindy Eilbacker), a perky little number who is killed by some menacing motorcyclists. Shanks, though a timid fellow, manages to do in the villains and reactivate the girl. As she walks toward Shanks haltingly, like a marionette with lumbago, she holds her arms out to embrace him. The scene ends with the girl, who is about old enough to qualify for the junior-varsity cheerleading squad, half dancing with Shanks and half hugging him. There is an unmistakable hint of eroticism here, but Shanks' fantasy ends just...
...this desire which makes him grasp for any form of football, whether it be the relatively obscure capacity of passing on his accumulated knowledge of the "Restic system" to some timid freshman quarterback, or cranking out bombs destined for the outstretched arms of Canadian and American receivers...
...Front Page, the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur classic about newspaper high jinks circa 1928, police reporters stop at nothing in pursuit of a new lead or an old adversary. Journalists have become more genteel since then-some say more timid-but once in a while the old ways show up. Two enterprising Louisville reporters, Howard Fineman, 25, of the morning Courier-Journal and Jerry Hicks, 27, of the afternoon Times, were arrested last May for eavesdropping on a closed meeting of the local Fraternal Order of Police...
Staff members profess to having found their first counseling calls "scary." But they say this feeling wore off soon, when they realized that the caller at the other end of the line was at least as timid as they. Bill S. Connelly, a staff member, said that people who come in to talk often spend the first ten minutes of their time there apologizing for having troubled the staffer...