Word: spinelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief Secretary and later made him acting Cantonese Generalissimo. To this day South China respects no living Chinese more than Hu Han-min. He has shrewdly traded on the yearning of all Chinese to get back at Japan by hurling repeated rebukes at Generalissimo Chiang for "his spineless failure to adopt a strong policy toward the foreign power which has torn and ravaged our homeland...
...Manchukuo pioneer homesteaders, Mr. Nakaoka tut-tutted the idea that among the Japanese homesteaders he will enjoy any special prestige or influence because he was the very first person ever to assassinate a Japanese Premier, polishing off Premier Hara in 1921 for the now fashionable reason that he was "spineless...
...echoed round the world but his defiant utterings sounded a different note from those of the Reds he hates so vehemently. While millions of his countrymen listened to his fervent denunciation of the discrimination against Germany by the former allied powers, the Nazi leader declared that the day of "spineless submission...
...relapse now into a state of complacent triumph, for they have won the debate. The Austrian Socialists depended on leaders so imbued with the glories of constitutionalism that they compromised themselves into a hopeless position; nor were they, as the fugitive Bauer admits, goaded to a policy of spineless inaction by the conservatism of the rank-and-file; on the contrary, Dr. Bauer relates the difficulty the Party heads encountered in substituting "wise" and "cool" tactics for the "impetuosity" of the workers, who disliked seeing their organization being hamstrung without resistance. And when the Socialists did take up arms...
...into a lather of anticipation, as war, "short, brutish, and nasty," is predicted as the imminent outcome of the Japanese-Russian dispute. (The New York Times, on the other hand, has felt called upon to reverse without warning its views of Soviet diplomacy, now terming it shamefully weak and spineless where before they thought it insidious plotting against the safety of the civilized world; the Times has gone so far as actually to bewail the lack of supporting connection between the Kremlin and the Third International). Other papers, however, have asserted with surprise and some glee that conflict is approaching...