Word: pantywaist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Harvard, he said, has always had a "good liberal tradition." At the present time, however, he feels that it is somewhat "pantywaist" and hopes to see it adopt "a more militant and aggressive attitude, especially in the fight for civil rights...