Word: sheepish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such celebrities as Max Schmeling and his ex-movie actress wife Anny Ondra have posed twirling what the Germans call Swing Reifen, Sport Reifen, Hula Reifen or Hulahupp. A Hanover store increased its sales by offering to deliver well-wrapped hoops after nightfall to childless couples who were too sheepish to carry them home. In Finland there are hula marathons that set contestants to twirling hoops about the hips, neck and knees all at once. In Japan, where some 3.000.000 hoops have been sold, people queued up in Tokyo department stores to buy tickets enabling them to get hoops later...
Flood Tide. For a long time the West was divided and confused in its response to Nasser. It recognized justice in Arab resentment against past foreign domination; it felt sheepish about some of its Arab allies (though few are as feudal as Nasser's partner, the Imam of Yemen, and Nasser himself has yet to allow democracy). The West has incurred Arab hate by its Israeli policy. It also acknowledged Nasser's genuine popularity, and hesitated to risk a showdown. With Iraq's abrupt fall, there was no longer a peaceful balance of tensions in the Middle...
...since 1942, gets tangled in his unreeling novel and goes down with his quips. Spoofing government may be like spoofing Hollywood-reality is so much more preposterous than any possible fiction. What might have been a sharp-witted satire on boobery among bureaucrats turns out to be a sheepish sermon on sic transit gloria Monday through Friday...
Melville Cooper has a wonderfully sheepish face for the role of the chief thief, and is hilarious in his series of outrageous disguises. The roles of his proteges, the ardent Hector and the morose Gustave, are well entrusted to Lawrence Spector and John Reese. Guy Sorel makes the most of his mainly silent role as the hen-pecked Lord Edgard. David Bauer is properly reserved as the older Dupont-Dufort; and the endomorphic slob the latter sired is highly amusing in the hands of Tom Bosley...
...independence, accompanied by a note describing the book as a gift "from one who understands and sympathizes." In Cyprus itself church bells tolled triumphantly, spelling out "Makarios" in an old Greek ringing code, and as the news spread from balcony to balcony, crowds poured into the streets, joyously kissing sheepish British soldiers...