Word: wimp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Looking tough is a special challenge for George Bush, burdened as he is with the image of the eternal second banana. Lately the Vice President has sought to counter murmurs about the "wimp factor" by citing his captaincy of the Yale baseball team and his World War II combat record, as well as his Government posts. "Everything I've done in my life has equated with leadership," he says. But Bush undercuts his effort by his refusal to adopt any firm positions of his own. His principal rival, Bob Dole, exudes a can-do aura that allows him to project...
...followers and heaped extravagant praise on the preacher. A month earlier he accepted an invitation to speak at a dinner honoring New Hampshire's right-wing publisher, the late William Loeb. For years Loeb had abused Bush in print, labeling him an incompetent hypocrite and, even worse, a wimp. So ingratiating were the Vice President's remarks about Loeb that some of Bush's family members argued with one another about his showing...
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...Most people tend to think in terms of two alternatives: either you stand up for yourself or you are considered a wimp," he said. "I think what's missing is a third alternative: being assertive without being aggressive. That includes refusing to be pushed around, but, at the same time, not submitting to bullying tactics. Being able to change an issue of confrontation to one of negotiation...
Ronald Reagan, wimp? Dove? More wishy-washy than (gasp!) Jimmy Carter? Not only were those strange-sounding accusations ringing out last week, they were coming from people who are normally among the President's staunchest supporters. Reagan, they charged, is letting his eagerness for an arms-control deal and a summit with Mikhail Gorbachev prevent him from precipitating a full-scale showdown with the Kremlin over the seizure of Nicholas Daniloff, the American reporter being detained in Moscow on what the U.S. regards as trumped-up espionage charges. Why, they asked, was Reagan being so cautious and pragmatic about...