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Word: wimp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feels and make sure I am holding a steady pace. When my soles start to burn, my body starts to dehydrate and a seering pain rips through my legs, I have to keep telling myself that I did not run miles and miles through snow, rain and wind to wimp...

Author: By E.k. Anagnostopoulos, | Title: The Long Walk to Recovery... | 4/17/1990 | See Source »

...would Bush play such an opportunity? A G.O.P. dream scenario runs like this: Bush (obviously) avoids choosing a trustee of Planned Parenthood, but he does select a new Justice whose position is ambiguous enough to generate a mini-outcry from the pro-lifers. Then the former wimp sticks by his man (or woman), stands up to the antiabortion lobby and creates a political triumph that dwarfs even Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a Big Tent Around Abortion | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...Kelly is a jellyfish. (This is Julio speaking.) He should have thrown the ball to Harmon on the last play. Wimp...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: The King of Sports | 1/26/1990 | See Source »

...only natural that a red-blooded American who has repeatedly been called a wimp should derive a certain satisfaction from the sudden accusation that he is actually a bully. Hence the strutting, how-do-you-like-them-apples? comments coming from the White House just after the invasion of Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Operation Mismatch | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

Manuel Antonio Noriega is hardly the Emperor of the Turks. But seizing Noriega and bringing him back to the U.S. in chains is a similar callow triumphalist flourish by President George Bush, the former wimp. Modern media saved Bush the necessity of lugging Noriega in a cage to future summits and election rallies. That prison mug shot of the humiliated former dictator became an instant worldwide image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Speak Softly and Carry a Cage | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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