Word: timidly
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...promote industry, new enthusiasm for tariff cutting in international trade. Buoyant and assured, he bounced on nationwide TV one night, and in a rare flight of inspirational rhetoric, promised Canada a government "to excite the daring, to test the strong and to give a new promise to the timid...
...industry task forces to recommend the legal and administrative measures necessary to restore business confidence in Latin America. Without that, concluded Connor, private enterprise-and the Alliance-is doomed. "Private enterprise requires order and a minimum of certainty. Disorder drives capital out of an area, not because it is timid, but because it is scarce. It is the product of work and savings, and it abhors irresponsibility, wastage and misuse. In the midst of the current chaos in Latin America, the U.S. corporation is about as much at home as a bishop in a poker game...
...Democratic nomination for the state legislature, brought charges against Kerciu-desecration of the Confederate flag by "obscene and indescent [as the charge spelled it] words and phrases." Arrested by Oxford police, Kerciu posted a $500 bond, came out of jail to find that his associates on the traditionally timid Ole Miss faculty had rallied behind him and are planning to help him put up a hard fight at his trial early next month...
...tempo of change has increased, prophecy has become an increasingly hazardous undertaking. Most recent predictions in retrospect seem unaccountably timid; one has the feeling that the prophets of late have failed to recognize the most fundamental aspect of scientific endeavor today--its incredible, accelerating rate of discovery and accomplishment...
Catholic University in Washington, D.C., has a high aim-"to search out truth scientifically, to safeguard it, and to apply it"-qualified in practice by a timid feeling that now and then some of the truth has to be suppressed. The newest case of suppression has the school's faculty in revolt and deeply worries many of the 239 Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S., who are C.U.'s guardians...