Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimate fully half the pupils carry pushbutton switchblades or homemade zipguns. 'Many of these guns,' a teacher said, 'are made in the school machine shops in the presence of teachers who seemingly don't choose to know what is going on, or who are too timid to protest...
...Milwaukee Journal, from Lima, Peru, where all newspapers are too timid to print stories about important scandals (such as graft and briberies), smirches and vices (such as horse betting and lotteries), please give my most sincere congratulations...
...disorganized and rather motley Republican Party. This latter, not considering the work required to remedy the first, is a tremendous job. It is certain that Eisenhower is not "buying time" and that he reflects a common sentiment in America--America no longer needs to put up with a timid and irresponsible foreign policy. David A. Titus...
...stating those principles, Dwight Eisenhower spotlighted what he called the "key word" of his Administration and of the program it will present to Congress: "Help." What did he mean by help? "We do not mean monuments to costly and intolerant bureaucracy. We do not mean a timid unwillingness to act. We mean service-service that is effective, service that is prompt, service that is single-mindedly devoted to solving the problem...
...Eisenhower's speech, it would be hard for an enemy to find a sign of weakness, just as hard for the timid and the neutralists to find bluster or swagger. By stating the American position more vigorously than ever before he had summoned the nations to face with resolution the appalling fact that Communism and The Atom exist in the same world...