Word: pantywaist
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Minnesota not only won the AL West, it dominated the division, finishing eight games in front with a 95-67 record, a 30-game turnaround. And this was no pantywaist division either. For the first time in 22 years of division play, every team finished at .500 or above...
...Actually, Garner said that the office "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss." After his retirement, he complained that "those pantywaist writers wouldn't print it the way I said...
Wholesome Mélange. Some adults in the gathering carried placards: GOD, GUTS AND GUNPOWDER MAINTAINS LIBERTY and AMERICA WILL SURVIVE TRAITORS, TRASH AND PANTYWAIST POLITICIANS. Behind them, some 300 youthful protesters waded into the Reflecting Pool with shouted slogans, mostly obscene, of their own. For the most part the audience took their antics cheerfully. When police headed off some dissenters making for the speaker's stand, the crowd cheered, leading one protester to say: "My God, they would like to see my head cracked." Nonsense, retorted a bystander: "Just your mouth shut...
...feud between Gibbs and the Piel brothers. Sound trucks, skywriters and posters will plaster New York with the cabalistic exhortation "B. B. B. & H." (for "Bring Back Bert and Harry"). Next month Gibbs will take on the brothers in three radio debates. Predictably raucous, Bert Piel will charge: "That pantywaist Gibbs doesn't even like beer. If you put an olive in it, he might drink...
...Since when," Pugh asked the Association of Military Surgeons, "has the doctor of medicine and dentistry become such a pantywaist as to require that a bald responsibility, which others accept with good grace, must be decked out with certain frills before he will buy it?" Pugh brushed aside objections that military service for doctors involves too much moving around or too little chance for advanced training. The main objection remaining, he said, "is simply a matter of easier, quicker and bigger money-avarice; a better, if . . . possibly an ephemeral, opportunity to get rich quick...