Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corps can safely do without 2,100 reserve planes which were included in the Army's 1941 goal of 5,500, let France and Great Britain have new planes (but not new, secret devices) which otherwise would soon become obsolescent and have to be replaced. Timid Mr. Woodring, who had opposed just such a policy last year, insisted last week that the new policy is now his. "I am not very easily pushed around," said the push-happy Secretary...
Lukas (cynical Convict Hessler), J. Edward Bromberg (timid Convict Flaubert), Albert Dekker (bossy Convict Moll...
...situation was desperate and fraught with excitement. Despairing of improvement, Vag reached out with a timid hand, slowly, carefully, and then with a sudden bold motion firmly pressed the metal plunger. Another summoning of courtage, another depression of the plunger, and it was all over. Vag stood up, slipped a few coins into the small box marked P-L-E-A-S-E, and dashed out the door back to the comparative security of his third-floor room. Now there was only the anxiety of waiting for a small while envelope bearing the printed legend, "The Crimson Portro-self...
...rose Dr. Kung. In perfect English he told the assembled foreigners that in the Chinese zodiac cycle, the old year was represented by the timid rabbit, but the new, auspiciously, by the angry dragon-China's patron beast, sharp of claw and smoky of breath. From a huge clock over a trapdoor at one end of the room sprang a man dressed as a rabbit. A harangue was made on his record during the year. At the stroke of midnight emerged a laughably fierce dragon made of tinsel and crepe, glistening with Chinese lanterns, borne aloft and twisted...
Lest the news from Paris terrify timid people, Physicist John Ray Dunning of Columbia said that fission experimenters now believe there is an automatic check against a multiplying chain reaction getting out of control. The accelerating release of atomic energy would heat up the uranium specimen; this heat would speed up the neutrons beyond the point of maximum effectiveness for fissions, and the reaction would therefore slow down, and stop...