Word: craven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mean proximity?" He insisted on a quick trip to Webster's New World Dictionary on a stand in his lush Times office, furnished with the look of a turn-of-the-century men's club. The verdict: the two words are interchangeable. But there was nothing craven about this language maven. Instead, he said with verve, "Now both of us know something we didn't know a moment...
...will go blithely on his way, until the Big Test. "Everyone figures there will be a Supreme Court vacancy before '92," says a White House aide. "And that will be the ball game. At that point, no matter how many pro- abortion bills the President has vetoed or how craven he has been in his support of the right-to-lifers, it will all come down to how he handles that nomination...