Word: wimp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this self-described wimp done it? Not with mirrors, although one of Holtz's secondary skills is the ability to perform parlor magic tricks. First and foremost, he is a disciplinarian in the Vince Lombardi mold. In his first team meeting in 1985, he looked around and saw players slouching in their seats. He ordered them in no uncertain terms to sit at attention from that point on. Says senior defensive tackle Jeff Alm, who is almost 1 ft. taller and 120 lbs. heavier than Holtz: "He's not the biggest guy in the world, but he seems to possess...
...President, who has been dogged by the "wimp factor," did not back his alma-mater Yale about, which will take to the gridiron today against its traditional cold war rivals from Harvard...
...presidential incarnation, George Bush was the Democrats' juiciest target: the perennial preppy, the suspect wimp, the Vice President who was always off at a ball game or a funeral when weighty affairs of state were being decided. But after eight months in the Oval Office, Bush tops even Ronald Reagan in popularity (70% approval), a reversal of fortune that has plunged the out party into another of its periodic identity crises. Last week, in an orgy of finger pointing, party stalwarts from New York Governor Mario Cuomo to national chairman Ron Brown asked, in effect, Where are the Democrats...
With George Bush comfortably settled into his administration, it's time to compare and contrast. Will Bush, now perceived as Mr. Nice Guy, ever completely slip the wimp image? Will his administration ever produce a scandal big enough to make him a real Republican...
Michael Dukakis failed to pin a label on Bush last year in his run for the White House, but Bush has managed to pin one on himself now. He is truly the "Wimp President...