Word: timidity
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...silently lifting off the roof across the way, or the gale ripping through their houses, how it stretched their skin, thumped them, knocked them down, blew the flowers out of the vases and the vases against the wall. They remembered the tinkling of falling glass all right, and the timid brushing noise of the young foliage hitting the road. And the mewing of people too frightened to scream...
Woolworth watchers fear that the loss of executives of the caliber of Anderson and Allbright could be severely damaging to the company. They are afraid that the big retailer, which has been in a three-year profit slide, will become timid about expanding promising operations like Kinney Shoe Corp. and its Foot Locker unit, and reluctant to move fast into new specialty areas. On Wall Street, Woolworth stock fell 1⅝, to 24⅛, the day Anderson's resignation was announced. The shares closed the week...
Neither the small, timid Maine defense not sophomore netminder Pete Smith were any match for the Crimson offense, and with six minutes gone in the second stanza, Smith left the game. He had allowed six goals and stopped only five spots...
Signs of a Pickup Abroad TIME's European Board of Economists sees a timid recovery...
...Doctor De Soto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $11.95). William Steig is a septuagenarian whose stories seem to grow younger with every effort. In his newest book, he follows the adventures of an altruistic mouse dentist, Dr. De Soto, who accepts a highly dangerous and extremely toothy patient. The fox, acting timid, tries to outmouse Dr. De Soto. But the rodent soon outfoxes the patient by employing a bit of orthodontia. The heroics should reassure anyone due for a six-month checkup or a set of braces...