Word: wimp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three a.m., I always wimp out and opt for jargon-jockeying because I think that my TF will like...
...pages; $22.95). In telling Bonnie Von Stein's story, McGinniss adopts, consciously or not, her view that her son was mostly a pawn manipulated by dangerous friends. McGinniss stresses the young man's weakness of character and instability; he quotes defense and prosecution attorneys describing the youth as a "wimp," and attempts to establish his two co- conspirators as evil geniuses. Even the photograph McGinniss uses shows Von Stein's son as a weak-chinned, wide-eyed boy. Bledsoe, whose emphasis is on the perpetrators rather than the victims, convincingly evokes in words and pictures a much harsher figure, quite...
...think George Bush is a wimp...
...think he's at all a wimp. His great asset is that he's perceived as a wimp -- it's always a strength for a public figure if the public misperceives him. People come in to deal with the man, or indeed a woman, with a misperception. Then their reflexes aren't ready for what's really there...
Once derided as a wimp, Bush can sympathize with Quayle's dilemma. Last week the two men spent 10 minutes in the Oval Office alone discussing the nation's latest "President Quayle scare." The next day Bush gave Quayle a public vote of confidence. "I see him in action," said Bush. "I know what he's doing. He has been extraordinarily helpful, and I can't ask any more of him." Quayle's friends say he is calm about the controversy, sustained by Bush's unflagging endorsement. Notes one: "It would be psychologically impossible to explain his genuine confidence were...