Word: washyness
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While you devote most of your space to the Woodstock crowd, you frequently mention the existence of young Nixonites and Wallaceites, and on special occasions you even hint that there are a few scattered wishy-washy moderates.
For a President who has seemed wishy-washy on racial issues and who has been accused, with some justice, of pursuing a strategy of appeasing the South, the move was forthright and forceful. Nixon was emphatically urged not to make the trip by Attorney General John Mitchell and Political Adviser...
On letting the Faculty (as opposed to the administration or the police) handle discipline: "The Faculty is too washy washy."
Testifying before a House Post Office subcommittee in Washington, the silver-maned Senator urged a crackdown on the "smut peddlers" who send pornography through the mails to children. Despite "wishy-washy" court definitions of obscenity, said Barry Goldwater, "As a father and a grandfather, I know, by golly, what is...
Fourth, the newspaper handicapper cannot get any indication of the current condition of his selection by inspecting him in the paddock just before the race. A seriously washy or sore horse can usually be discounted from contention in a race.