Reported in Senate, Assembly adjourn special sessions on gun control immediately after they begin. (Wisconsin State Journal, 11/8/2019)
According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'chickenshit as a usually vulgar term occurred in 1943.
Other coinages from the same year include:
- airhead
- anal-retentive
- damage control
- dead duck
- falsie
- kiss of death
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GET ME REWRITE: Meet Scott Fitzgerald, happy to have his caucus take NRA money and screw the will of the people. (10/23/2019)
Headline about Wisconsin gun laws omits key adjective. (8/11/2019)
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