I'm glad Grandma never had to hear the President say almost every offensive word, at least once, on national TV. Ramblings of a Wretch If my Grandma could see all this world has done to me… Would she see a lazy, chicken-hearted crybaby?
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Chicken-hearted people always feel that the other guy is either equally chicken-hearted or plain crazy.
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They are chicken-hearted fools, who will fight for neither side.
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What a chicken-hearted fellow her father must have thought me!
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Why, they turned out to be kind of chicken-hearted after all.
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Say, you're not losing your nerve, you chicken-hearted rabbit, are you?
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He is too chicken-hearted for that, or for anything else that requires pluck.
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There is no use of being timid nor chicken-hearted in the present cause.
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These chicken-hearted bosses always seem to give in at the first sign of a strike.
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It is very hard to be a Vajrayana practitioner with a timid, chicken-hearted attitude toward life.
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A coward is generally a bully, for he who is chicken-hearted may naturally be fowl-mouthed.
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It is incumbent upon me, as leader, to stamp out this sort of morale-sapping, chicken-hearted nonsense.
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I can't imagine what is the matter with me to-day, I'm as chicken-hearted as a woman.
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It is an unalloyed good, and it is sad to see our politicians responding with such chicken-hearted paranoia.
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Even I, a chicken-hearted Americophile, get caught in the net as a potential terrorist and am interrogated for hours at airports.
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Obviously, David had noticed our unexpected visitors at the river and made for home as fast as his chicken-hearted legs could carry him.
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They're four-flushers, if you know what that means.I don't exactly hate them myself, but I haven't any regard for chicken-hearted four-flushers.
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My point is that the movie, which is sometimes very funny in the usual zany, pop-surrealist sketch-comedy manner, is studiously inoffensive and thoroughly chicken-hearted.
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We're beaky or tigerish, doe-eyed, raven-haired, foxy, chicken-hearted, slow as a tortoise, meek as a dove, sheepish, dogged, old goats, goosey, sitting ducks or vultures.
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Indeed, any sign of courtesy on our roads is taken as a sign of mental or moral weakness, a failure of the spirit, a lily-livered, chicken-hearted attempt to stay alive.
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NBC Sports chairman and former Saturday Night Live producer Dick Ebersol spoke out against all who had mocked Leno, calling them "chicken-hearted and gutless"."Taking on America's 'nice guy. Los Angeles Times. Jeff Gaspin, then chairman of NBC Universal Television Entertainment, also defended Leno, saying, "This has definitely crossed the line.
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Ibrahim later claimed he was merely giving an advice, but being misunderstood as giving a threat to the ethnic Chinese community. Despite promising earlier to bring 15 thousand Perkasa supporters to counter the Bersih rally, he was nowhere to be seen on the day. He later claimed that he was unwell and did not get his wife's permission to attend the counter rally.The fearless and the chicken-hearted.
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We are going to shoot you,' or words to that effect." According to Trooper James Christie, a New Zealander, when Morant ordered the patrol to form a firing squad, the men objected and one of the Lieutenants shouted, "If you're so damn chicken- hearted I'll shoot him myself."Leach (2012), page 56. Before taking his place in the firing squad, Trooper Botha told Trooper Christie about Visser, "I know him good.
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Resistance crumbled and the Battle of Old Byland turned into a rout. Richmond himself was taken prisoner, as were Henri de Sully, Grand Butler of France, Sir Ralph Cobham ('the best knight in England') and Sir Thomas Ughtred. Many others were killed in flight. Edward – 'ever chicken hearted and luckless in war' – was forced to make a rapid and undignified exit from Rievaulx, fleeing in such haste that his personal belongings were left behind.
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I have already done much towards its fulfillment but not enough to rest on my laurels. So now I am staking everything on this last card [...] I may die in this 'expropriation' and I want to explain [...] Money [...] may the devil take it! I prefer to win it in a fight than to beg for it from the Polish public which has become infantile through being chicken- hearted. I haven't got money and I must have it for the ends I pursue.
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Bennett has been credited with inventing the first chest protector worn by catchers. According to Bennett, his wife worried about his safety as "a target for the speed merchants" and saw a need for a form of body armor to protect her husband from broken ribs. Bennett and his wife designed a homemade shield by sewing thick strips of cork between layers of "heavy bedticking material." Out of a concern for spectators "roasting him for being chicken-hearted", he wore the device under his shirt.
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The cowering Shaggy and Scooby are "chicken-hearted", but what he didn't count on, was that Scrappy was "lion- hearted", resulting in Scrappy growing the mane, claws, and teeth of a lion! He chases the gypsy, and Shaggy and Scooby help him by flying with a log, which they trap him with, and Scrappy grabs the amulet. He remarks it's good t be back after the gypsy queen turns them back to normal. Disappearing Car Caper A thief, Pistons McGee, is stealing cars by shrinking them and making off with them.
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During the 1879 election campaign, called the Midlothian campaign, he rousingly denounced Disraeli's foreign policies during the ongoing Second Anglo-Afghan War in Afghanistan. (See Great Game). He saw the war as "great dishonour" and also criticised British conduct in the Zulu War. Gladstone also (on 29 November) condemned what he saw as the Conservative government's profligate spending: > ...the Chancellor of the Exchequer shall boldly uphold economy in detail; > and it is the mark ... of ... a chicken-hearted Chancellor of the Exchequer, > when he shrinks from upholding economy in detail, when, because it is a > question of only £2,000 or £3,000, he says that is no matter.
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" The irony of Seinfeld's stance was noted by at least one publication, as Seinfeld had itself weathered a rocky beginning thanks to the patience of NBC executive Rick Ludwin, the benefit of a strong lead-in (Cheers), and years to develop its audience as opposed to O'Brien's six months. Jim Norton, who was a frequent contributor to Leno's shows, touched on the controversy repeatedly in interviews and on The Opie & Anthony Show, calling the harsh criticism of Leno "amazing" and suggesting that Leno declining to walk away after stating otherwise was no worse than O'Brien "actually trying to force Jay out by telling the agents, 'If Conan doesn't get The Tonight Show, he's leaving the network.'" NBC executives served as Leno's chief defenders, with Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Universal Sports, being particularly aggressive. Calling Leno's detractors "chicken-hearted and gutless," he summarized the late night situation as an "astounding failure" by O'Brien and further characterized O'Brien's and Letterman's barbed jokes about their rival as "professional jealousy.
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