Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean Acheson's State Department was standing fast against a deal with the Chinese Reds. The U.S. (despite some timid souls in high places, including the Pentagon) was still pledged to destroy all Communist forces in Korea and drive all the way to the Manchurian frontier...
...agents-"Rover boys," the spies called them-and a grand jury began asking questions of Gold. He laughingly reported to Brothman and Miss Moskowitz that he had given the grand jury the impression of being "a small, timid, frightened man, who in some manner was involved on the fringe of espionage and who now was completely aghast at what he was on the brink of." Brothman and Miriam were delighted...
...first big group show of the Paris season was dominated by a single painting. Bernard Lorjou's huge (12 ft. by 18 ft.) Atomic Age made everything else at the Salon des Tuileries last week look either timid or oldfashioned; it was a direct challenge to the aging moderns who have so long shaped French art. By its size, its dull coloring and its air-war theme, the picture was clearly intended to invite comparison with Picasso's famous canvas of the Spanish civil war, Guernica. Lorjou is no admirer of his elder. "Picasso is called...
This thesis was promptly developed at length by the Fair Dealing New York Post. The Post found Valentine "alternately timid, unimaginative and fatalistic." C.I.O. lobbyists spread the word that Valentine was "reactionary," "anti-labor," and had also been known to take a drink. "He'd be wasting his time trying to win our support," said one C.I.O. official. Former ECA "subordinates" who knew him when he was ECA administrator in The Netherlands spread the word that he was vituperative, bumptious, inflexible and prejudiced. "A brilliant fellow but a little kinky," said a former associate. "He's right robust...
...been unquestionably timid (although far less than Washington) in the scope of our original invasion of Africa. Had we struck out boldly, and landed forces far to the east, even in Tunisia ... we would almost certainly have been successful...