Word: timidly
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...Croft because she carried her 9-mm SIG Sauer pistol in a thigh holster and worked out constantly. She was known as a fearless driver in convoys, navigating around obstacles at 90 m.p.h. to ensure that Iraqi insurgents would have no opening to attack. "I'm kind of a timid person, but when I got behind the wheel, it was balls to the wall," she says. The Air Force first lieutenant had chiseled her body with bench presses and squats into a taut 145 lbs. on a 5-ft. 8-in. frame. "I had a workout log and a food...
...She’s a wise and giving instructor, with a special talent for creating a workshop where all the class voices, from the assertive to the more timid, can feel comfortable weighing in,” said former student Charles L. Black...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz is a tough critic. He criticized the Rhode Island Bar for anti-Semitism. He castigated professors too timid to challenge University President Lawrence H. Summers, calling them “victims of cowardice.” He so rarely has anything positive to say that his praise of Laurie B. Puhn ’99 author of Instant Persuasion, the Coop’s featured book last week, speaks volumes...
That is the Cirque secret: rendering the undoable beautiful. Aiming for the highest common denominator, Cirque makes nearly every other form of entertainment seem timid, sullen, earthbound. K flies at its own giddy altitude and takes you along for the ride. If you catch the import of every gesture and plot point, fine. If not, you can still feel the lift and thrust, the vertiginous thrill. Either way, it's quite a trip, one that turns an evening at the theater into an exalting hallucination. K induces rapture. --With reporting by Steven Frank/ Las Vegas
Taken together, the finds overturn the idea that early mammals were tiny and timid. That had been eroding anyway with occasional discoveries of teeth and bone fragments that hinted at larger creatures. Now paleontologists can stop cooking up theories to explain why mammals were so little--that they had to be small to avoid being found, for example, or they couldn't grow larger because dinosaurs already occupied those ecological niches...