Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What manner of woman ignored the provincialism of the 1890's and went to college? Certainly not the timid, nor the average, nor the society conscious, nor the unambitious. Yet Gertrude, even among her brilliant and determined classmates, was somehow different. Later, when she wrote at great length about her life, she always skimmed over the Radcliffe period. "I knew the flexible Mass Stein for twenty years," says Miss Alice Roullier, a former art dealer. "She never mentioned her college days...
...quasi-religious group called Abako, which Belgian newspapers brushed off as merely a tribal organization. Originally it had been formed by the Bakongo tribe of the south as a sort of protective union against the harder-working and more favored Bangalas. But under the leadership of a slight, timid-looking but steel-willed fanatic named Joseph Kasavubu, 41, it gradually turned its anger upon bigger targets...
...fight for British Aluminium began in 1957, when Reynolds and other U.S. metals interests quietly began buying Aluminium shares. Although the company came out of World War II wjth 3.7% of world aluminum production, timid sales policies had cut its share to .9%. But it had a reputation for quality, plus substantial assets and a promising moneymaker in its new smelter at Baie Comeau, Canada. Last April, apparently afraid that Reynolds or some other aggressive U.S. concern would buy control, Aluminium's chairman, Viscount Portal of Hungerford. got stockholder approval to boost the firm's shares from...
...stupidities and minor conquests, emotions half understood and alternatives wholly missed. Unlike choleric, Mom-baiting Philip Wylie, Author Connell sees the Mom of his first novel as a saccharine, easily swayed and sympathetic character. Far from monstrously dominating her husband and three children, Mrs. Bridge is so tame and timid that her daughter Carolyn says coldly: "Listen, Mother, no man is ever going to push me around the way Daddy pushed you around...
Loyalty oaths are now required of recipients of aid under both the National Defense Education Act and the National Science Foundation Act, which was passed at the height of the McCarthy scare when educators were too timid to protest such obnoxious provisions. The 86th Congress, which is scheduled to consider new educational aid legislation anyway, would do well to remove loyalty restrictions from both bills. Rather than aids to education, loyalty oaths are purposeless and dangerous hindrances to the spirit of the legislation containing them...