Word: timidity
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Also, Munro felt that Columbia might be weakest at Harvard's strength on the field-the wings. "Our fullback wings were a little timid to join the attack against Amherst," Munro said. "Columbia has two strong inside fullbacks but their outside fullbacks should be weak. If we emphasize our attack on the wings, we should cause a lot of trouble...
...colleges that robs banks, that's revolutionary," he said curtly. Are all college students bank robbing revolutionaries? "No," he answered, "I have two daughters in college and they're not revolutionaries." A precarious friendship with Mayor White after the Hemenway incidents, a nation-wide wave of radical bombings, a timid Boston citizenry, afraid to go on the streets at night, a soaring heroin problem, a dead herocop, a police department that wants to bust some heads, and two daughters living right in the midst of the enemy! Commissioner McNamara broke all rules on pre-trial publicity and ... blew his cool...
...Awnit. my pet otter is Hadn't. My timid cow is Ardly. As a restraining influence on my pet bear, I just call...
Frost was plagued by professional jealousy. He resented every other poet from Eliot to Sandburg and suffered torments at Edwin Arlington Robinson's success. Even timid Marianne Moore seemed a threat. She "had been turning you against me," he wrote their common publisher...
...flaming creatures from the sun, but our fears have been relocated. Perhaps the massive 800 page Condon report dealt the death blow to the boom. At any rate, we gaze into the night sky with unaccustomed security these days. The cities hold more dangers in store for the timid...