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Word: timidly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come to begin hothouse cultivation of "the hundred flowers" of criticism, the suspicion was that he was looking for noxious weeds to bare their heads to the party scythe. He had to wait awhile; it was weeks after Mao's "rectification" campaign began before China's timid intellectuals found the courage to raise their voices. For his attack on Mao, Editor Chu An Ping was suspended from his party. General Lung's co-workers publicly rebuked him for "slandering the Soviet Union with malice." Critics could expect vigorous counter-criticism, but as yet there was-no evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Spreading the Word | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...said that he should not be criticized. To those who do not follow that teaching of Marx, I would address an old saying: he who does not allow himself to be criticized during his life will be criticized after death." And last week, as an encouragement to some understandably timid flowers, the Peking regime released Author Hu Feng, whose arrest in 1955 was the keystone of a campaign to silence China's intellectuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: The Latter-Day Prophet | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...Hassan remembers, his father took him to a diplomatic reception and told him: "You must speak, say something, anything."; The little boy sat through the evening sucking his thumb. When the guests had gone, his father angrily thrust him into a corner. Says Moulay Hassan: "I'm not timid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Man of Balances | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...caids. In a matter of days a crestfallen Sidi Mohammed was bundled onto a plane with his two wives, five children, and assorted veiled ladies of the court for exile in Corsica. El Glaoui briskly produced his replacement as Sultan-goateed Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, a timid cousin of Sidi Mohammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Man of Balances | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...attributed "public apathy towards the government in the states" to inept and timid party leadership on the state level. The result of this situation, he said, might well be "eventual federal centralization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Urges States to Justify Powers With Better Leadership | 4/12/1957 | See Source »

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