Word: timidly
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...teams," he chortled. But since then it seems like Miller has been pulling his punches. In the season opener Sept. 4 he was silent for most of the game except halftime, when he was eating Skittles during his analysis. In the broadcasts since, Miller has become even more timid, as columnists have pronounced the comedian-as-football announcer experiment a failure...
...problem was] defensive stuff, putting pressure on the ball," Wheaton said. "We were a little timid outside...
...Paulo, Brazil and that was major culture shock. The first day I had to order food, and I didn't know any Portugese or even Spanish," Hall says. "People would teach me the words, but at first it was so hard just to say them. I was really timid--it was hard...
...shameful of them to act this way, but it will be equally shameful of us if we are too timid to put an end to their attacks," Grove wrote in his e-mail message. "We must put our foot down. Because relying on isolated HUPD patrols has not succeeded we must try another tactic...
...blow against Big Oil. Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping new anti-pollution measures that would drastically reduce emissions from trucks and buses and eliminate a significant percentage of the carcinogens and asthma-inducing inhalants currently poisoning the national atmosphere. This is a big step for the once-timid EPA; Wednesday's declaration is an uncharacteristically forceful move, setting the agency on a collision course with the powerful (and increasingly irritable) oil industry. While regulators would continue to grant smaller refiners a now-entrenched degree of latitude in meeting the new standards, larger producers would be subject to fines...