Word: gutlessness
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Heimert's penchant for tradition occasionally sparks memorable comments: explaining the University's new alcohol policy to residents this fall, one house senior says, Heimert stood on a chair and bellowed, "those gutless cowards up in the Yard want to take away your booze...
Legislators noted that unlike his speech last year, where Dukakis referred to state lawmakers as "gutless," the governor took responsibiity for many problems during a year marked by cantankerous budget debates. Dukakis said it was clear to him that the timing was wrong last year for a call to expand state government...
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...
...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...
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...