Word: pussyfooting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That expectation itself may be unrealistic, especially where repressive regimes almost cry out for some sharp judgments. Brazil's bishops, for example, seemed in no mood to pussyfoot last week. Their own agenda for Puebla focused on "glaring social inequities" and "unjust division of land," and cited the enormous gap between rich and poor as "a social scandal in a continent thought to be Christian." At Puebla, the bishops' concluding statement urged, there must be "prophetic criticism of the socioeconomic and political systems reigning in Latin America." Medellin, obviously, will not be set aside, even on orders from...
...increased my desire to have any," stated Actor Peter Ustinov, whose new movie casts him opposite Michael York, Jenny Agutter -and 150 feline costars. The sci-fi film, titled Logan's Run, shows Ustinov as the last human resident of Washington, D.C., left all alone to pussyfoot his way through the Senate Chamber. "When you get them all together, they are all very much different," said Ustinov of his furry associates. "One cat had asthma whenever I started to talk to it. I rather liked that one because I understood...
...Theodore Roosevelt, jokes about her two mastectomies and refers to herself as Washington's only "topless nonagenarian." Julia Child, television's "French Chef has a no-nonsense attitude about her operation, which she revealed publicly for the first time last week. Says she: "I would certainly not pussyfoot around about having a radical because it's not worth it." Both Shirley Temple Black and Marvella Bayh, wife of Indiana Senator Birch Bayh, have made it equally clear that a mastectomy is less tragic than some believe...
...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...