Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...using the presidency as a source of symbolic support for Rushdie, Clinton incurred the wrath of some Muslims in Iran and Egypt. Notwithstanding his timid and apologetic assurances that he "meant no disrespect" to the Muslim world, however, Clinton did the right thing...
...government has been very effective at crushing opposition. The most ardent anti-Castro groups are in exile. Those remaining have been reduced to small, timid groups, and human-rights organizations report that the number of arrests of even moderate dissidents has risen sharply. Very few people, says Felix de la Uz, "are willing to do something to make the system fall...
...praised corporate funding for AIDSresearch, but encouraged Fortune 500 companies andunions to be less timid about involving themselvesin community AIDS programs...
...travelling show when "La Strada begins." Needing another assistant, Zampano returns to Rosa's village where the girls' mother agrees to sell Gelsomina to Zampano also, in exchange for 10,000 lire. The other children are going hungry and Gelsomina herself is regarded as somewhat worthless; she is exceedingly timid and does no work to help the family. If this exchange seems somewhat coldhearted, it only hints at the treatment Gelsomina will receive throughout the rest of the film...
After taking back the function of the kiosk, the Square will finally begin to reappropriate the space for itself. Performers will come out of the woodwork--first a timid juggler, then a JFK-Mark-David-Chapman-CIA-Stephen-King conspiracy theorist and a pitiful guitarist who thinks he's Jimi Hendrix...