Word: pussyfooter
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...They pussyfoot around all summer, then come here and expect to get into shape under the naked eye of the human coach, then blame him for their failures," he began in his Irish brogue. "John Yovicsin is as fine a coach as any," he added. "It's the players themselves that are to blame. They're a bunch of pussyfooters...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Peter Sellers, David Niven, Capucine and Robert Wagner pussyfoot along with The Pink Panther...
...just three weeks after The Handbook of Prescription Drugs went on sale--Burack is getting impatient with his role as the tolerant doctor. In a rare moment of confidentiality during an interview last week, he leaned over and said, "You know, between you and me, it's silly to pussyfoot around here. I think it's time to clean this thing up right...
...house of Parliament), where one opposition critic has accused Nehru and Menon of ordering India's border guards not to fire on the Chinese invaders. When, at last, Menon was forced to acknowledge the extent of the Chinese aggressions ("a stab in the back"), he nevertheless continued to pussyfoot when it came to finding a way of forcing the Chinese to "vacate their aggression." Explains Nehru, ever fearful of a war he might not win: "You have to think of the next step...
...Howard Gossage, 42, who have floated to prominence clinging to champagne bottles, beer kegs, brandy snifters and, of course, fifths of Irish. In the process they have broken almost every advertising rule in the book. Their ads are casually illustrated, almost never done in color, and they can pussyfoot around a subject so quietly that the reader sometimes has trouble telling what the ad is about. What they do have is fun, an aged-in-the-wood humor that tickles readers and rings up billings of $1,000,000 a year from clients who give them some...