Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apocalyptic Visions. William Cowper was only six when his mother, a descendant of the great John Donne, died of a fever. Timid little William never got over the shock of her death. Next year he took another severe shock when he was thrown to the young lions of an English boarding school. In sporting tradition, stronger boys mauled the weakling thoroughly, and with special zest because of an "intimate deformity" he is said to have had. William apparently made his "adjustment" by repressing his fear and shame and hatred. At any rate, when he was 21, and a law student...
...gloried in the weight of the white man's burden. Even on the dark side of the color line which galled the three Africans aboard, there was no brotherhood. To Mr. O. K. Chibude, a leftist civil servant on the make, native Missionary Josiah Selwyn was a timid object of contempt. Lij Makonnen despised them both...
...France, Gaullists, Communists and some nearsighted or timid middle-of-the-roaders are sure to fight the plan's ratification tooth & nail. The British, at best, are lukewarm. But, as a disgusted German delegate said to a French colleague at the height of the haggling in Paris: "If we go on like this,-we'll be arguing about German rearmament in Siberia...
Last week the veterans quickly buckled down to business. Said Congress Chairman Louis Kaneberman, a Johannesburg lawyer: "Those not with us are against us-there can be no compromise. To the timid we have given courage and inspiration where it was most lacking...
...infested by similar lice, there is a good chance that they descended from a common ancestor. Certain lice carried by flamingos, for instance, indicate that flamingos are related to ducks and not related to storks. There is not much chance that flamingos recently picked up duck lice. Lice are timid pioneers, and only rarely colonize unfamiliar birds...