Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this and more has followed from Mr. Truman's fatal decision not to see it through in Korea. It plunged us from an invincible position of moral strength into the confusion of uncertain bewilderment, the practice of doubtful expediency and the eventual misery of timid appeasement...
...magazine, and for a number of undergraduate writers it has served as a stepping stone to more lucrative satisfaction. Another aid to undergraduate writing is the board's criticism of pieces submitted, a thing of no small value to the young writer, who is always anxious, although often timid, about hearing reactions to his work...
...this week passed his 2,500th hour on the air, topping the endurance record of even durable Howdy Doody (2,080 hours). In the years of Garroway's climb, the medium which now carries his placating gestures into 1,800,000 homes each day, has grown from a timid experiment, originating largely in Chicago, to a giant phenomenon dominating U.S. living rooms from coast to coast. Last week, perhaps in deference to its veteran, the whole industry seemed as relaxed as Garroway...
...offered a timid program in some important areas, but it was mostly copied from the Democrats. The only new program it has put forward was for the construction of highways, and it botched that one by proposing to finance it with a bonanza to the Wall Street financiers-a bond issue. In other areas this Republican Administration has actually moved backward. It is dominated and controlled by Big Business-which it allows to plunder our natural resources...
...equipment overboard, worked the pumps until they dropped, and strained mightily at the capstan so that on the second high tide, the Endeavour was pulled free. Even then the ship would have sunk to the bottom if Cook had not been canny-and humble- enough to accept a timid midshipman's suggestion that he draw a dung-and-oakum-smeared sail under the ship and over a shattered spot in the bottom. Pressure clotted the sail to the hole, and the Endeavour and her men were saved. Though the East Australia coast was only 25 miles away, Cook...