Word: gutless
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There is only one description that truly fits Norman Chandler's Los Angeles Times: a gutless wonder. It is not what the Times has done, but what it has not done for the benefit of all of the people in this area...
...Irked by the poor showing of his 1955 world champions (six games out of first place at week's end), Manager Walter Alston gave them an angry dressing down, called them gutless, and somebody leaked the word to sportswriters. Later, to a man, the Brooklyns denied that good old Walt had called them any such thing. That did not put the touchy word on ice. When a Cincinnati fan subtly applied the same epithet to the Dodgers' Centerfielder Duke Snider ("Whatsamatter Duke, you gutless?"), the Duke answered with a sharp, crisp left. Encouraged by a Cincinnati judge...
...hell in a hand basket. Its leaders are morally bankrupt ("America is indeed without leaders"); its people are whipped around by TV and public-relations types and have almost nothing to do with deciding their political fate. Its rich are vulgar and mindless, its poor too gutless to do anything about their condition; its labor leaders impotent fellows and "government-made men." U.S. generals and admirals are "warlords" who pursue their dreadful projects in the mazes of the Pentagon with a total disregard for what the citizenry thinks or wants...
...back. Ever mum about his own recall to a second long tour of duty, Marine Williams fumed: "When Podres became a hero, some politicians said, 'Why isn't a big strong kid like that in the Army?' " Who creates such situations? Williams' unminced answer: "Gutless draft boards, gutless politicians and gutless sportswriters." What's more, Ted Williams knew how to change the draft law: "Baseball careers are short, and they are depriving a player of 20% of his career by the draft...
...Southerner, and I strongly sympathize with the problems of the South, and I appreciate the difficulties that must be met in the slow and inevitable accomplishment of integration. I only regret that such a large and ticklish undertaking must be complicated by the Northern and Southern minorities of gutless, poor-spirited and fanatical trash, inspired by the opportunists who can see money to be made in every human perplexity...