Word: spineless
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Imagine the Serbian leader's surprise when the opposition didn't just fold. He had counted on its usual spineless disunity. He didn't realize the uncharismatic Kostunica was the critical ingredient that let Serbs imagine an alternative future. He didn't know how bitterly Serbs blamed him for their blighted lives. The accumulated woes of $45-a-month salaries or no employment at all, four lost wars and untold thousands of lost Yugoslav lives, the NATO bombing that dashed an impoverished economy into visible ruins, the bitter years of sanctions and international opprobrium. Domestic repression and self-serving propaganda...
Twilly Spree has problems managing his anger--he blew up his uncle's bank--and he's hot on the trail of Palmer Stoat, a lugubrious Florida lobbyist who made the mistake of littering in Spree's presence. Throw in a spineless Governor, a sleazy real estate deal, a beautiful but dissatisfied young wife (that would be Mrs. Palmer Stoat), a thug named Mr. Gash and the eponymous ill canine, and you've got the ingredients for a hilarious novel that moves as quickly as untouched Florida shoreline is vanishing. Hiaasen's brand of storytelling--a blend of social satire...