Word: milquetoasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Noriega. Now that Bush has pointedly consulted half a dozen Latin American leaders on his game plan, they will make a mockery of their own calls for "regional solutions to regional problems" if they run off the field and hide. "A lot of countries are coming on board with Milquetoast statements," says a U.S. official. "We need to get Mexico and some of these other fence-sitters to come out publicly and totally isolate Noriega...
Bountiful succeeds primarily as a painstaking character portrayal that is unusually perceptive and occasionally brilliant. Geraldine Page is wonderful as Mother Watts, the doting, doddering old protagonist, a hymn-singing, sentimental Jewish mother who happens to be a Texas Christian. She lives in a cramped Houston apartment with her milquetoast son Ludie (John Heard) and shrill daughter-in-law (Carlin Glynn), leading a weary existence that only aggravates her deteriorating heart condition...
...plodding bureaucrat whose soft drone is regularly drowned out by the assertive tones of his rivals. Another is a different kind of Milquetoast, one who talks tough but is steering American policy away from stern anti-Sovietism back toward wishy-washy detente. A third is no Milquetoast at all, but a policymaker who has so thoroughly won the trust of his chief that he speaks with an authority exceeded only by that of President Reagan...
...Fritz Milquetoast thinks he has it sewed up, does he? If he is the Democratic presidential nominee in November, I will be obliged to vote for Reagan. I am sure I will not be alone in my crossover...
...country's most promising liberal pols. If one manages to wade through pages of irrelevant detail--lots of short, simple sentences, topped off by the gee-whiz exclamation point--one will find a clearer definition of the Democratic raison d'etre than any offered up by milquetoast Walter F. Mondale...