Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novel, They Went On Together, dealt with refugees being machine-gunned in one of those nameless countries which are Novelist Nathan's today's special. The Sea-Gull Cry is less portentous. A blonde young Polish countess is living in an abandoned scow on Cape Cod. A timid, tender, middle-aged professor visits her. After an infinitesimal tiff, they fall in love. That, except for a pair of pleasant children and a brace of pungent New Englanders, is all. The thousands of Nathan readers will find The Sea-Gull Cry pleasant summer reading. Others may be reminded...
During the week Winston Churchill conferred with the King on the question of a second front. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden admitted that an overwhelming majority of Britons wanted an offensive in Europe; he promised that history would not be able to describe the British as "a little, timid people, sheltering on our island." But these moves apparently were not enough...
...spotted a timid little fellow, with tiny sprouts under his nose, and nervous eyes behind rimless glasses. This was the spitting image of Mr. Pettengill, the most learned and conscientious teacher in Central Junior High, and the easiest, too, Vag reminisced fondly. Wanted to be a big professor some day, but just couldn't get placed, somehow...
Unheroic Hero. Teddy Tewler was born ("shyly, not headfirst but toe-first, like a timid bather") about the turn of the century. Even his conception was an accident. "One knew there was some sort of knowledge about [contraception], but one couldn't be too careful whom one asked, and your doctor also in those days couldn't be too careful in misunderstanding your discreet hints and soundings." When Teddy was four, his father died of indecision (you can't be too careful) among a convergence of busses. In his extreme youth Teddy enjoyed sticking out his tongue...
...chronically] lonely, homesick, timid, despondent, the one who never took an order in his life, the one who can't stand teasing, cussing and dirty jokes, the alcoholic, the bad actor...