Word: timidly
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What They Say. Betty is now so far out in official Washington that she is almost back in again: tipsters favor her with items they know would be wasted on other, more timid columnists. But once Betty is on to a story, she pursues it with ruthless zeal, never blanching at button holing Washington's most imposing figures to check it out, rarely pausing to consider its consequences...
Arriving in Teheran, Halsman watched an army march-past outside the palace, and was surprised to see who was taking the salute: the Crown Prince, just 16 months old. Next day Halsman photographed the Empress Farah, whom he found "very young, pleasant, serious and timid...
...play (La Brigitta) for Actress Françoise Spira. "Very difficult, very difficult," says Audiberti to a visitor. "In fact, I think you're sitting on it. It's the story of a successful woman of 30 who comes in contact with herself-a thin, poor, timid girl of 20. What does she do? Naturally, she has to kill the other girl or else her whole life would be only an illusion." Some other views, from the same interview, of the man who considers himself another Victor Hugo...
...country where teacher morale is low, the A.F.T. is outstripping its bigger "professional" rival, the 765,600-member National Education Association, which shuns strikes and collective bargaining. Last week's strike may well stiffen U.S. school boards against the union. But it did produce phalanxes of traditionally timid teachers mad enough to hit the bricks like miners and dockers...
...long as they recognize that their aims are those of a part of the political arena, the march is a step forward. Those who support a liberalization of American policies need not resign the function of criticism to those of the right; they need not be so timid that they only look on and applaud with silence...