Word: gutless
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...Andrew, do you realize that you're a gutless chameleon?" asked Teacher Jim Searles of the shy, withdrawn teen-ager who had come for an interview at the Hyde School in Bath, Me. Andrew was close to tears, but Searles was only following the sock-it-to-'em pedagogic philosophy of his boss, Hyde Founder Joseph Gauld, 50. Faced with a rebellious applicant, Gauld once shouted, "Listen, I'm telling you either change your attitude around me or I will jam it down your throat...
Jackson was outraged. "The remarks attributed to you," he wired Rockefeller, "are obviously false and malicious. I demand an immediate apology." Scoop said later: "A man who made the kind of gutless attack he made is the lowest form of humanity." He was especially annoyed that the innuendos came on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary. Rockefeller, however, showed no sign of repentance or even concern. At first, he declined to discuss the issue since he considered his remarks off the record. Then he sent Jackson a message that fell miles short of an apology: "I have made no charges...
Boyd ended his speech with violent words about Harvard students. "You people are in a goldfish bowl Rocky puts us in to make us scared of what they think of us," Boyd said, "and you're being intellectually gutless and stupid not to notice...
...With a weak executive, the oil companies now cannot use Nixon to coerce Congress--which isn't hard, because Congress is pretty gutless in most cases," he said...
...also the glamorous gangster. Given the style in which he executes the heist--posing as a rich ice cream manufacturer, vacationing in a Ritzy Cannes hotel, driving a Mercedes, bowling over women the while--it's a wonder that anybody ever goes straight. The answer is that they're gutless (feminized). It takes a Simon, a Courageous man, to abandon a safe life of bourgeois go-getting for a dangerous life of challenging it. It's outlawry as freedom...