Word: pantywaists
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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...
...youth (well played by Richard Widmark) who is very proud of his "scientific" methods. (Sample: he schemes to get the G-man knocked off, in the course of an apparent burglary, by the local police.) His business associates are so young and fearsome that among them Mr. Stevens, no pantywaist, seems as mild and conspicuous as a country uncle. He makes himself still more conspicuous by the recklessly amateurish ways he keeps in touch with fellow agents; they signal each other, for instance, with lights at fleabag windows. However, he stirs up a lot of dirt (a high police official...
...season began inauspiciously with defeats at the hands of Penn and Cornell, and articulate Bill Cunningham felt moved to dub the play "pantywaist pigskin pushing...
...come in. It wasn't quite the same in the summer, without the Annex. "Pretty good game today, wasn't it?" he ventured. "Sloppy," she replied out of the corner of her mouth. "Well, that starting pitcher just had a bad day," he said bravely. "Bad day! Why that pantywaist couldn't hit the broad side of I wouldn't like to say what." "Not Radcliffe," Vag breathed to himself. "What did you say?" asked the girl. "Oh, I just wondered if you thought you were going to win the raffle." "Me? You nuts? Er, it's the big bankers...
...would really be good for "the 'pantywaist brigade' (and isn't that vulgar?)," snapped Cissie, to have a taste of war. Even Bill Bullitt "might have lost his insatiable appetite for intrigue before the present disaster" if he had "risked his young blood and guts and tears in the last World War instead of cutting dramatic capers at the Versailles Peace Conference...