Word: timidly
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...from the Americans. His lieutenants are distressed by Adenauer's recent electioneering demands for a ban on the H-bomb and a closer look at the Soviet promise to pull troops out of Central Europe. But none dared tell der Alte so to his face. Irritated by their timid, roundabout hinting, Adenauer refused to have anything to do with their debate...
Picking up the pieces after the Suez disaster, the British found themselves getting used to the idea that they are not as big a power as they thought they were. The discovery made some timid Little Englanders decide that the sooner Britain settles down to being a comfortable Sweden or Holland the better, but there were others who were looking for new combinations of strength and finding them in the idea of European unity. A clear and insistent emotional cry for "Europe" was being heard last week in both Britain and France...
...Pate and Wilson have little else in common. After reaching Hong Kong, Pate's confidence expanded with each passing hour, his glibness grew apace, he fended deftly with reporters and mugged happily for cameramen from China to Carbondale. In Arlie Pate's phosphorescent wake, Aaron Wilson, mouse-timid, dull-eyed, tongue-tied, went almost unnoticed...
...Biddle's sparring partners, and Biddle himself at times got kept out of sight in his corner. The whole play takes place in 1916-17, and the stage action centers on Cordelia's engagement and marriage to Tobacco Heir Angier Duke. Angier, seemingly a weak and timid mouse, slowly emerges as a tough little rooster with a mind-and a body-of his own. And Angier's sharp-tongued Southern mother seems at times less like a North Carolina Duke than an Alabama Bankhead...
...seldom be gauged in terms of dollar returns. More than ever, the businessman must rely on scientists and economists and be ready to gamble on their projections. Says Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Vice President Leland Hazard: "Too many people and facilities are at stake for management to be timid, cautious, slow, antiquated." General Electric Co. President Ralph Cordiner estimates that up to 90% of his time is spent on projects that will not come to fruition until after he has retired. The business leader, in the words of George S. Dively, president of Cleveland's Harris-Seybold Co., must...