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Word: gutless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Increasingly, Colombian public opinion favors negotiating with the narcos. It is a notion that Barco's associates know better than to utter around the office. When police foiled a plot to kill Barco's daughter, the flinty President said, "With common criminals and gutless assassins, dialogue is not possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia Noble Battle, Terrible Toll | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...control. Until last week, Brady had never used his plight to dramatize the issue. Finally, fed up with Congress's failure to act on even modest gun-control measures, Brady came before a Senate committee in his wheelchair to deliver a blunt plea. Congress, he said, was "gutless" for failing to pass the Brady amendment, which would require a seven-day waiting period so that police could determine if a handgun purchaser was a felon or mental defective prohibited from buying firearms. Lawmakers who oppose the bill, Brady suggested, should "try being in my wheels for just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington: Plea from A Wheelchair | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

While in last week's address Dukakis lambasted his fiscal critics as "gutless wonders" and denied that further spending cuts were needed to reduce the state's $636 million budget shortfall, he hinted that new taxes would soon be proposed...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Defensive Tone Marks New Dukakis Policies | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

...Oliver North Youth Corps issued a statement Wednesday denouncing the "gutless wonders" at the Republican National Committee for discouraging convention speakers from mentioning the indicted former National Security Council employee...

Author: By F.e L., | Title: The Gipper for Veep? | 8/19/1988 | See Source »

...English press trumpeted the Crockford's affair, Runcie offered no response to the attack. Senior ecclesiastics instantly rushed to the primate's defense, observing that he had been anything but weak in criticizing Margaret Thatcher's treatment of the poor. The essay was excoriated as an exercise of "anonymous, gutless malice" by one furious bishop. "Scurrilous," snapped the realm's No. 2 churchman, Archbishop of York John Habgood. York had his own reason to complain: he and Runcie were yoked in condemnation by Crockford's. In fact, the essay was seen as a bid to derail the liberal Habgood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death and The Archbishop | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

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