Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia that might conceivably replace it? That seemed unlikely. Last week Red Star and Red Fleet, official organs of the Soviet Army and Navy, began a campaign to strengthen Communist Party organization in the armed forces. Red Star called for improvement in the Army's "weak and timid" propaganda discussions, and said that to "guarantee our state interests" the Party must reach thousands of officers who lack "serious political education...
...speaking as one journalist to another ... as long as they [the Russians] must pretend to be more perfect than men can ever be, and must hold themselves aloof, obscure and mysterious, the timid may fear them, but the shrewd common sense of mankind and its instinct of liberty will not permit men to trust them, to like them, or to follow them...
...opus are: Lauritz Melchior as a tubby (what else?), good-hearted-but-tending-to-be-grouchy-at-first baritone; long (vintage 1900) skirts; an opera rustled up by California technicians from odd bits of orchestral music by Lizst and Mendelssohn and sung patently in English; Peter Lawford as a timid male debutant who calls a girl "darling" because it turns out she can speak Greek; and many others of lesser note...
...before France's dreaded college entrance exams. Timid, tense young Elaine Chollet asked the professor a question: Would he be kind enough to translate this English passage about Captain Forester? The teacher became agitated, hurriedly dismissed the class. That passage, he knew-but how did the student know?-was on one of the papers...
Marguerite Stihlé, timid, toothless mother of 14 children: "I'm a Protestant . . . my husband got sick. ... I asked the church for help but they put me off. One day they even asked me for a contribution. I said 'To hell with them' and we all joined the Communist Party...