Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deterrence Without Bellicosity. When the political reviews of the television performance were in, some politicians on Capitol Hill thought that Dulles and the President were too bold about the international situation and others thought that they were too timid. Some pundits clucked that crucial international issues should not be discussed on such an informal show. But it was clear that Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles had done a remarkably good job of explaining U.S. foreign policy in a way that the people...
...Alan Broughton, the author of the best story in the Review, comes much closer to good form in his three-part story of death on a farm, as seen by a small timid, and asthmatic boy. All of Broughton's characters are distinct; his descriptions are fine; and his point comes across without didactic elaboration. His dramatic tension is unusual for college writing, although he leans slightly on an episodic organization...
...Brave little hens of France." But soon it is time for the Bon Beurre to butter up a new power. A good year before war's end, the Poissonards are tactfully praising DeGaulle in public, and Charles-Hubert becomes a hero of the Resistance when he betrays a timid little German friend to the underground, all the while kicking him in the shins and shouting, "Dirty Boche...
...Drama of Albert, Einstein, a book sent to her by an admirer, winsome Songstress Dinah Shore, now burbling her old favorites (e.g., It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House and Blues in the Night) at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, ventured a timid literary criticism. "I've concluded, honey," sighed she, "that it's easier to understand relatives than relativity...
Some of the most timid Republicans in the Senate voted against McCarthy. Of those Republicans who voted for him, few if any were intimidated by Joe. They voted their convictions. The source of those convictions can be found in the amazing failure of the Truman Administration to take early alarm at Communist infiltration...