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Whoomp, whoomp bumped the coward heart.
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Green means habitable, yellow means moderately damaged, and red signifies that the building is unsafe.
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Hot and even moderately hot pans will scorch the 10% resin content, turning it brown or yellow.
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Some also have lost lawyers, dismayed by the pusillanimous behavior of their leaders.
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The second believed the United States could attain comprehensive security through military-technological means and saw diplomacy as a quixotic or pusillanimous enterprise that dishonored and weakened the country.
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In 2024, The Onion purchased Infowars, the conspiracy website born of the craven lunatic/Sandy Hook shooting denier Alex Jones.
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It’s populated by craven, cowardly traitors.
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Or maybe the problem is Cape Fear itself for being too cowardly to commit to the certainty that drove the previous versions of this story.
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But even the most perfect Constitution can be undone by the wicked with the help of the bought, the stupid, and the cowardly.
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Yes, Arsenal fan Neel from New Delhi held his nerve on the final day to shake off the persistent and heroic challenge of six-year-old Wilfred — and the meandering, distinctly unheroic challenge of a 51-year-old journalist.
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That larger significance is remarkably unheroic and fatalistic.
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This, to Newsom, is being strong; the right are the fainthearted schoolmarms now.
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Going to the theatre in that period was hardly an entertainment for the fainthearted, and calamity was not confined to the stage.
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The story has the dastardly president of the planet Spaceball (Brooks) trying to steal the oxygen from Planet Druidia.
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His dastardly scheme involves using Kryptonian tech to build an all-new continent off the coast of Metropolis — even after all these years, he's still obsessed with real estate.
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“Weakhearted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weakhearted. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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