Word: spunkless
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...triangle has pyramid-like endurance, persisting for some 40 years. In the best of circumstances, it would strain credulity; with Molly played by dull, spunkless Blythe Danner, its strength is incomprehensible. Although she is a sweet enough young thing, even in the early going she suggests no mysterious depths of feeling, intelligence or sexuality that would require more than 40 minutes to plumb. As she ages-and life plays its usual mean tricks on the three of them-she seems a pleasant, easy kind of woman but not the focal point around which three lives are built...
...again. In an effort to shake Britain down and make it seem necessary to buy his silence, Statesman Sidky abruptly flew into a rabble-rousing rage last week, roared out part of what any Egyptian leader would say if he tried to speak for the long-oppressed and today spunkless Egyptian people...
...Detective John Stege had begun an inconvenient practice of giving "house parties" at headquarters for all known gangsters picked up on sight. Capone was ready to face these changes when he returned to Chicago. He had left short, stocky, moon-faced Jake Guzick, who hides shrewd ability under a spunkless whine, in charge of the Capone gang. Guzick would make his "business report." Capone would do whatever reorganizing was necessary. The peace pact negotiated at Atlantic City was still in force. Such gang killings as had occurred were sporadic personal affairs, no part of the wholesale slaughter committed by organized...
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