Word: spineless
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...American eyes are quick to turn from our stainless steel to some of our spineless, sordid screen productions. I sincerely hope that America will refuse to have filth poured over their country in the name...
...unrestricted violence that has existed in Alabama, the bombing of the children at Sunday school was almost inevitable. Although the Governor's consistent and thoroughly predictable attitude has certainly contributed to the disgraceful situation, the ultimate authority, and therefore responsibility, has always been President Kennedy's. His spineless, "politically expedient," too-little-too-late policy can only have encouraged the extremists and fanatics...
...Spineless leadership left Ole Miss students unprepared for an orderly transition to integration. As early as last November, the Alabama board of trustees went firmly on record: "This board will not condone, and will take such measures as it may deem necessary to prevent, violence, riot and disorder." Similar no-nonsense statements swiftly followed from the alumni organization, the university faculty and the student council...
Moreover, unlike the spineless, stand-aside attitude taken by the University of Mississippi faculty during last fall's bloody Oxford riot, the University of Alabama faculty seems determined that there will be no student violence on their campus. President Frank Rose, an able educator and a moderate, months ago called in student leaders, pledged strict disciplinary action against segregationist demonstrators. Last week, with most of the main campus' 9,000 students already gone from Tuscaloosa for the summer, there seemed little inclination toward violence on the part of those who remained. Said one young...
Unfortunately, however, a great many people today know of the most tragic of all Southern efforts of massive resistance to forced integration. Many people now think of the University of Mississippi as an institution whose student body is dominated by rabid racists, whose administration is spineless and acquiescent when the politicians of the state start playing rough...