Word: meekly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your allusion [TIME, May 25] to accepters of "A" gasoline-rationing cards as "meek, mild Milquetoasts" made me hopping mad. If cooperation with the Government in a critical situation denotes a lack of guts, we had better dig up Mr. C. Milquetoast's living counterpart to run the war effort...
Aside from the fact that it was an ill-chosen word, "Milquetoast" does not need "meek and mild" as modifiers; it includes those two adjectives, plus...
...makeshift plan was based on an estimated 401,000,000 gallons thought to be available until July 1-a supply sufficient to give everyone the basic "A" ration of three gallons per week until then, if too many did not ask for more. Too many apparently did. The meek, mild Milquetoasts who took the basic "A" cards totaled only 20% in some areas, less than 25% in the 17 States as a whole. (Leon Henderson had figured on 337%.) Some favorite chiseling dodges...
...plants and put them under Government operation. This is unlikely: producing more than 30% of the entire U.S. steel supply, the two corporations are too vital to be monkeyed with by anyone but crackerjack steelmen. WPB therefore flipped the whole thing over to the Justice Department with a meek "for appropriate action." The action: suits to enjoin future violations...
Franklin Roosevelt's legal eagle has been mild as mush, meek as Milquetoast. Ever since Dec. 7, the President has been waiting for him to wade into the ranks of known U.S. Bundists, Fascists and Axis sympathizers. Finally the President could wait no longer. He told Attorney General Biddle to rise up and smite all heathen idolaters...