Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impulse, he persuaded suspicious Soviet bureaucrats to part with six of the best canvases in the magnificent Hermitage collection in Leningrad (including Rubens' Portrait of Hellena Fourment, Rembrandt's Athena and Flemish Dierick Bouts's The Annunciation), thus opening the way for bids from more timid collectors and dealers...
Countess Kristina, who is the heroine of the first half of the book, becomes Emperor Karl's secret agent in World War I; her scurryings around in Parisian underthings, waving secret documents, make Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd look like a timid traveler in an old suit of B.V.D.s. When Kristina collapses into the arms of Spain's Alfonso XIII, her sister, Countess Zia, takes over for the between-wars decades. When at last, after more than 700 pages, Hitler and the Russians start divvying up what's left of the Dukay world, many a reader...
...sport luncheon explaining that he was bothered by 1) an old knee injury, 2) a shot of morphine to quiet the knee, 3) a double Daiquiri to quiet the morphine. His stories usually pictured his own rampaging footballers (among them Marshall Goldberg and Charles Trippi) as shy, timid little fellows who screamed unless he kept buying them lollipops and tucked them into bed at night. The opposition were brutes who combed their hair with wildcat claws. He fancied himself as the depressed coach without material who concentrated on character-building-and wasn't very good at that either...
When Rudolph came into the world, in 1858, his father promptly made him a colonel of Hungarian Light Infantry, and before he was six years old, put him in the care of a senior army officer. Sickly, timid Colonel Rudolph was toughened by being awakened at midnight with a fusillade of revolver shots; then he would be dragged outdoors in early morning and put through a drill. When he seemed to be growing interested in science and politics, he was turned over to a new "tutor" who introduced him to night life and sex. After he had thus contracted...
This newspaper will not knuckle under to the fears that are gripping the timid, the small-minded, and the owners of ski resorts; it is just such a super-natural, cosmic crisis that can call forth in the individual a stamina and vigor which transcends ordinary, day-to-day courage. Besides, the Old Farmer's Almanac predicts snow within a week. That's good enough...