Word: spinelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time. I neither invent another world that isn't there, nor do I go whining to my mother because the world is harder and nastier than I expected. I do my best to be harder and nastier than anybody else." While other Nazis have appeared "mad, bureaucratic or spineless" to Steinbaum, the marshal seems "gross, humorous, shrewd, generous and free...
...also the serious matter of morality. In the old days a proper Brazilian wife stayed home, speaking only to the servants and to God. Now the town fathers are mortified; a man cannot walk home from a quiet evening at the brothel without seeing married women and their spineless husbands shamelessly laughing at the door of the new cinema. It is all very disturbing...
Despite considerable concessions to his new government partners, the Free Democrats, Adenauer plainly remains his own boss. Der Alte blithely added to his Cabinet without consulting his coalition colleagues, further humiliated Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard (whom he considers too spineless to rule Germany) by withdrawing Erhard's unofficial title of Vice Chancellor, and coolly refused to give the Bundestag the customary summation of the new government's policies...
...cabinet members thought that was a most appropriate place for the Governor to be. With a roar of rage, Robert McCarthy, 40, resigned from his post as state director of motor vehicles. Wrote McCarthy: "It has become difficult for me to work for a spineless administration that lacks both courage and principle. When I accepted your appointment in January 1959, we agreed to the seriousness of the traffic problem, and the need for vigorous leadership. Since that time your support has dwindled steadily and by now has disappeared . . . My attempts to curb the drunk driver, while initially receiving lip service...
...once ejected 18 players from an exhibition game), Dascoli insisted on absolute obedience in every game he worked. But good as he was, Dascoli committed the umpire's unforgivable sin: he lost his temper in public. Fortnight ago, for calling National League President Warren Giles "incompetent and spineless," Dascoli was summarily dismissed. Explained Giles, who is also a fast man with a thumb: "The best umpire is the most inconspicuous-except when he's calling a play...