Word: weathercocks
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...earthy (and sometimes as mysteriously beautiful) as a potato; with Anthony Quinn, an actor so radically natural that not even 20 years of Hollywood has spoiled him; and with a screenplay by Arnold Schulman that veers with the story's gusts of emotion as lightly as a weathercock in the wind...
Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer had twirled like a weathercock in a whirlwind over the problem of jug-eared Michael Lee, controversial chief of Commerce's Far Eastern Branch. Last spring, when a Senate subcommittee began gesturing at Lee's loyalty, Sawyer said: "He's one of our best men . . . We're ready to fight...
...policy of quietness on Chinese affairs for a few months will do no harm to our chances of ultimately achieving a U.N. Commission for Formosa. Unless that Commission is extremely popular, especially with such an excellent weathercock as India, we don't want to be in the forefront of a fight for it. If, however, the right countries are on our side, then our leadership will not be required...
...fared no better, says Psychologist Charles. There was Washington Irving's gawky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, "with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that [his head] looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck . . ." Tom Sawyer's bewigged schoolmaster was fussy, pedantic, strict ("his rod and his ferule were seldom idle") and frustrated ("The darling of his desires was to be a doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher than a village schoolmaster"). Wolfe's idea of a schoolmaster, also described in Look Homeward, Angel...
Then Franklin Roosevelt was elected President. Harriman reacted to the New Deal like a weathercock in a gale. When other depression-struck railroads were frantically retrenching, he spent millions to give the Union Pacific low-priced dining service, comfortable day coaches, streamlined trains. He became an officer in NRA, and a devoted servant of the President...