Word: timidly
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...built a road across Aksai Chin, Nehru felt compelled to act. He reiterated angrily that India's borders were "not negotiable" and dispatched troops to the disputed areas with orders to establish Indian outposts and "clear out" the Chinese. Evidently, Maxwell says, Nehru believed that Peking was too timid, weak or unconcerned to do much about the "forward policy," as it was known in New Delhi. Peking proved him tragically naive. In a matter of days the Chinese wiped out the 65 Indian outposts on the two fronts and drove as far as 45 miles into Indian territory; China...
...immigrant's face. In times past, thousands like it-high cheekbones, timid eyes poked like currants into a doughy Slavic mask, pale from weeks in steerage-streamed through Ellis Island. Add shades, a black jacket and dyed silver hair and you have America's perverse Huck Finn, son of Mrs. Julia Warhola from Mikova, Czechoslovakia-a face that, after Picasso's monkey visage, is perhaps the most instantly recognizable in art today...
Ellie? A chaste and timid rich girl with whom, nickel by nickel, Parr spends his time. She plays the piano in her Manhattan apartment while Parr lies on the rug listening: "It is this foot that I see most clearly, a rather generous-sized foot in a heelless brocade slipper working up and down on the soft pedal while I lie there on the floor watching it at eye-level. In answering Bebb's ad, I am sure that I was, among other things, hungry for fortissimo...
...Term Problem. Fraser, who is in charge of child guidance at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, did sound one ominous note: long-term effects in children may be serious. In an as yet unpublished study, he reports on eight children. All had a previous history of being timid and nervous, and many of their parents had a "tendency to overreact to the threatening situation." In the wake of the riots, the children's condition grew markedly worse. All were affected by such varying symptoms as fainting spells, asthmatic attacks, and visible tension at the thought of leaving...
...author of a federal bill that would provide no-fault payments for medical and rehabilitation expenses, plus up to $30,000 over 30 months for loss of income. Accident victims would be able to sue in court only if they suffered "catastrophic" injuries. Despite the Administration's timid position, some form of the bill stands a reasonably good chance of congressional adoption, if not this year then...