Word: gutless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself. ¶ Oregon's stormy Senator Wayne Morse, violent anti-Kennedyite and the capital's most accomplished collector of enemies, found a new one in his erstwhile chum, Wisconsin's Kennedy-leaning Senator William Proxmire. Invading Milwaukee for a speech, Morse lashed out at the "gutless wonders" and "phony liberals" who had voted for "the Kennedy-Landrum-Grifnn labor reform bill" (TIME, Sept. 14). Proxmire hit back: Morse's attack "indicates an unbalanced, arrogant extremism and speaks eloquently for the reform bill we passed." If Still in uphill pursuit of Vice President Richard Nixon...
...long ago, Clothing Dealer Jimmy Karam was a pal of Governor Faubus, a segregationist leader of the 1957 riots at Central High School; during last fall's elections, he faked an inflammatory picture of a Negro family agitating for "equality" (TIME, Oct. 6). But now invective ("lying bastards, gutless s.o.b.s.") is gone from his lips. He holds court in his Main Street store, telling all comers that "only Jesus is important. If everybody could take Jesus to their hearts, there would be no problems in the world...
...precisely this failure to take a stand, however, that turns Easy Living into a trite account of the nocturnal habits of a seedy set of people. In the absence of any moral clarity, either in defense of or opposition to this new life, we are left with a gutless congregation of men and women--shallow, mechanical, colorless--who do absurd things and utter ridculous statements but who never seem to be aware of their own humanity...
...ghost shimmered as he shuddered. "A bunch of limp and gutless people trembling for fear they might like something they shouldn't. They have to be told by Experts what is good...
...commended are the extraordinarily sensitive photography and direction, but one must take exception to the sirupy nature of the plot and the almost gutless nature of its presentation. The sharp differentiation between good and evil is of the native fairly tale type...