Word: timidly
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...attempts to sell him objects and ideas. He may be docile enough to be air minded and education conscious and remember to drink sauerkraut juice for breakfast, but the sheep like quality of the average man has certain limits. The logical remedy for this situation is for all timid souls to band themselves together for the propagation of a Build Up Your Sales Resistance Week...
Even the little boys at his Brooklyn public school teased gangling Arnold Baker. They made fun of him because he was 14 and still in the fifth grade, they shoved him about at recess time, shrilled derisive nicknames at him, called him "Big Boy," "Daddy Longlegs," "High-Pockets." Timid, lonely High-Pockets had a bad time of it. One day last week High-Pockets refused to go to school, again begged his mother to let him quit and go to work. When she went out, High-Pockets locked every door and window in the house, crawled up to and stuck...
...reflection upon the dead but a dedication grudgingly extended is a compliment neither to the dead nor to those who participate. . . . Now the American people have never been swayed by the lip of libel or the tongue of slander. . . . The foam of falsehood will soon cease to scare the timid or ambitious. . . . It would cheapen the memory of a man, most deserving, to importune anybody to do his memory a simple justice."* The association re-elected its officers: Calvin Coolidge, honorary president; one-time Senator Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, president; Secretary of Treasury Andrew William Mellon, treasurer...
...Although timid visitors at Yellowstone National Park have often been scared by bears, they have seldom been harmed by them. Last week Roger W. Toll, Yellowstone's superintendent, announced that he has just exactly the right number of bears in his park. Last fortnight he gave away seven grizzlies and two black bears. He has 160 grizzlies, 450 black bears left. But if this number were allowed to increase, the food supply (berries, roots, garbage can contents) would not be enough to go around. Some of the animals would have to go hungry, might turn on small and tender...
...policy. At one end of the anti-Prohibition fighting line stood those who favored outright repeal of the 18th Amendment and return of prohibitory powers, if any, to the States. Wet opinion shaded down through vague forms of modification and foxy redeterm-nations of "non-intoxicating" formulae to the timid "beer-&-light-wine" pleas at the other end of the line. Result: the Wet ranks moved forward obliquely, with one flank far in advance of the other...