Word: timidly
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...hallucinations." Today Strickland is in hiding, because, he says, "I think Steven's dangerous. He's got the money and some very near-the- edge people who follow him around." Yet he believes that Seagal would not personally carry out acts of violence, "because he's a very timid guy. I've seen him back down when he was confronted...
...which has long had an edgy relationship with movie stars -- it has made its reputation by soiling theirs -- may soon find out if Steven Seagal is dangerous or timid. Both the star and the magazine are under siege and out for justice...
...widely in generosity and effectiveness. There are companies whose idea of "reform" consists of slashing, or even denying, health benefits to retired employees (companies must now show the estimated cost of those benefits on their balance sheets as a liability, sometimes of embarrassing ; size). Some states have enacted only timid reforms, and others are being forced by a budget squeeze to pare down reforms put on the books in more prosperous times. Massachusetts, to take one prominent example, has delayed until 1995 some important steps in a comprehensive reform plan, enacted in 1988, that were originally supposed to be phased...
They'd take up a whole pew, the Weaver girls. "Everybody called us that," says Nan. Five born in seven years. Joanne was Daddy's girl, at least that's what the others claimed. Barb had red hair and matching temper. "Little Nan" was timid and quiet. Then came Sue, then Mary, the baby. They lived a classic Roman Catholic postwar childhood: their father, a bandleader, easygoing and affectionate; his wife a stern but loving homemaker; new outfits, with bonnets, each Easter; the strict, black-and-white doctrine of the Baltimore Catechism. Ice skating at the church rink. Splitting...
...very optimistic," says Dr. Firemon E. Hardenbergh, chief of ophthalmology at UHS. "I just hope the present administration isn't too timid...