Word: cowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jerks; he listens anxiously for voices from corners; under cabbage leaves on his plate he slyly hides pieces of meat he thinks have been poisoned. His only game is darts. He hurls the dart violently; then, when collecting his darts from the board, he is apt to duck, dodge, cower-expecting someone to throw a dart into his back...
Martin conceived the idea of his invention when, during a recent rainy spell, he found himself beset on all sides by determined females wielding the sharp points of their umbrellas with deadly efficacy, so much so, in fact, that he claims he was forced to cower for an hour in a convenient doorway till the rush hour passed. Fervently he wished for some sort of apparatus which would protect him reasonably well from the all too accurate thrusts of the parasol brigadiers, so when he arrived back at his little den in Weld he set to work on the plans...
...quit talking about defense and start talking about war. You'd be amazed at the number of men in the Army today who blindly seem to think that if they put in a year of service in company with a million-odd other men Germany and Japan will cower in submission. No kidding, there's a hell of a big job to do on the psychological front in this Army...
...night last week the Iron Guard launched all over Rumania bloody but ineffective revolts. These were crushed by the Rumanian Army as easily as the German Army crushed the original Munich Beer-Hall Putsch. Last week the King might cower in his great creamy palace on Calea Victoriei while the mob screamed and the Iron Guard fired shots in the air, but the rioting never got beyond Army control. It was the Army's redheaded General Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu who suddenly emerged on top of the pile at Bucharest...
...fear of losing their standing. Instead, they have resorted to "educating" the American people to the real "issues" in Europe. They are hypocrites, and their writings are the purest and most vicious propaganda. In one mood, they hiss and spit their scorn of isolationism; in another they cower before it, paralyzed by a fear that keeps them from voicing their innermost feelings. But the President, as the leader of not only the United States, but the Western Hemisphere, is not the man to give way to such tactics...