Word: gutless
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...wouldn't give me his phone number." This was before Redford invited him to look over a second screen play of the same book, written without Goldman's knowledge by Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron. The author recalls Redford's request as "a gutless betrayal...
...House reluctantly followed suit. Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte sneered at the Senate: "You got a bunch of fat cats up there raking in the big bucks. They can be big statesmen because they can collect those big honoraria." Utah Senator Jake Garn gibed that House members were "just as gutless" for retreating on their tax deductions...
...Dominguez rejected that argument saying. "If the idea is a ggod one, we should adopt if and not be afraid of facing other proposals along the way." He added, "We should not turn drown one good proposal just because we fear we'd be too gutless to turn down others...
...frenzied loyalty by commencement time. The way they looked up to the old guy, why you'd think they'd die for his beliefs. When Bache informs his assembled troops one fine June morning that their alma mater has been sold to condominium developers by a bunch of gutless civilian trustees, some of the real over-achievers get it into their heads to do something about...
...sterile self-righteous condemnation of oppression. Rather, Burger's Daughter is an intensely personal vision of political commitment--and its costs. Through the character of Rosa Burger we sense the emotional toll of living in a country with epic conflicts, a frontier where every action must be extreme: either gutless capitulation or heedless defiance. There is no middle ground in a country where there are still heroes...