Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operation is between three and twelve. Under three, arteries are so small they are hard to work with; after twelve, poor circulation may have done permanent brain and lung damage. Before each operation, the surgeons tell the parents that the risks are great. Fathers, they have found, are the timid ones. Mothers usually say to go ahead...
...creator of The Timid Soul had done nothing but invent Milquetoast-the quavering quintessence of the Little Man at his least manly-he would have earned his modest place in the nation's pantheon. Harold Tucker Webster has done a great deal besides, in the 15,000-odd panels he has drawn in the past 43 years. Last week Webster's fourth collection of cartoons (Webster Unabridged; McBride; $2) appeared...
...Webster has learned to slice and serve his generous chunks of U.S. life methodically. Caspar (The Timid Soul) appears Sundays and Mondays. The pitilessly fanatic and bad-mannered bridge players run Fridays. Boyhood's lovingly elaborated triumphs (The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime) and defeats (Life's Darkest Moment} appear on Saturdays and Tuesdays. Thursdays bring How to Torture Your Husband (or Wife). On Wednesdays, in The Unseen Audience, he pokes a sharp-pointed stick at radio-which of all mixed blessings most needs satirizing, and gets it least. Webster, in fact, is possibly radio...
...Berchtesgaden one prewar afternoon, Austria's timid Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg sat under a tree, waiting to be browbeaten. "Nearby Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel peacefully sunned himself on the porch. Last week Keitel told what happened next. Hitler appeared in the doorway, screaming: "Keitel, come here!" Schuschnigg watched as Germany's tall, arrogant Chief of the Supreme High Command strode into the house...
...papers had also printed it); 2) a sensational yarn that U.S. troops destroyed supplies which French civilians might have used (a story which the French were slow to correct when proved wrong). Aside from these, the French press - as best exemplified by the Paris dailies -has been almost timid in discussing its great western ally. The further fact is that the old, rowdy prewar Paris press is either dead or sound asleep...