Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wales, ex-Premier George remarked: "Never have I witnessed greater political confusion and perplexity. We have Conservative Ministers talking Socialism and a Socialist Premier playing the rōle of a timid Conservative-and the Liberal Party standing at the door of its shop while both the others take off its stores...
...obvious that the advisor must be the keystone of the whole structure. If he is timid and diffident, his advisers are certainly more so; if after two or three years of college he still lacks the confidence to invade a Freshman's rooms and make himself at home, he cannot expect such assurance on the part of the advisee. And if he has no great faith in his own advice, he may be sure that no one else has. But in any case, whether he gives good advice or bad upon his energy, his willingness to get up and grapple...
...Grave and stately in appearance," says the "Nation," "Dr. Eliot is not in reality an austere man. Even a slight intimacy reveals geniality, kindness, and humor; but his inability to trifle with the truth, his scorn of insincerity and affectation, and his courageous frankness of utterance sometimes frighten the timid. His spoken and written style is a faithful expression of his character. It is a style without applied ornament, without excess of kind, the utterance of a just and valiant man. Though strong-willed and self-assured, he sought to make his policies prevail not by the exercise of autocratic...
Mariane and Dorine, Miss Grew and Miss Thayer, were excellent complements, the one an over modest, timid little girl with a tendency to dramatic action and the other keen of wit and ready to plan common-sense solutions...
...United States." They point the finger of derision at the "impartial" jury who selected the winning plan--six of whom, out of the seven, were members of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association. And everyone who reads the prize winning plan must see that divested of some timid reservations and a great deal of camouflage it means neither more nor less than entrance in the League itself...