Word: gutless
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Harold Rappoport, as Mona, has the most subtle, trickiest emotional transition of the play to make. And he carries it off convincingly. In the first act he comes across as nothing but a gutless nebbish, passively accepting any manner of verbal humiliation. But in the second act he shows that he has remained vulnerable by his own choice, because there's a degree of sensitivity that he refuses to lose to the prisoners' tough conformity. When he finally refuses to let Smitty become his "old man," declaring with the Shakespeare sonnet that he cares too much for Smitty to play...
...Tulsa World assailed "the gutless way the pay raise was done." Mayor David Burrell of Watonga, Okla., asked residents of his city to fly their flags at half-staff to mourn the "pay-raise ripoff' that Congress "had snuck through." Complained Malcolm Johnson, editor of the Tallahassee Democrat: "You can't find...
...seems to be their editorial stance that too much literacy is a sign of weakness. One caption says that the U.S. had won the Vietnam war but "lost it during the Paris Peace Conference and with the help of gutless Congress." Most of the articles carry the reader along with violence or sensationalism. Features on weapons are geared to lure gun fanatics the way Motor Trend courts auto freaks. They go into exquisite detail. One review of a new pistol notes that "the front strap is serrated, a big help when the gun hand is wet sweaty or bloody." What...
...latest in a continuing series of foreign policy blunders- accepting the propaganda "apology" of the North Koreans in exchange for the lives of two U.S. servicemen [Aug. 30]-demonstrates again the "gutless" approach of the Ford-Kissinger regime in dealing with puppet dictatorships...
...embarrassed to get the words out. Finally Dole said that perhaps he should quit to give himself more time to prepare for his re-election campaign in 1974. Relieved, Nixon quickly agreed. Dole later said his dismissal was caused by "a faceless, nameless few in the White House ... the gutless wonders who seem to take personal satisfaction in trying to do somebody...