temporize
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James Marshall is the kind of guy who stands up boldly to international thuggery as well as to temporizers on his own staff.
From Time Magazine Archive
For in deede they were meere temporizers, & no better.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund
Janice Day was determined not to listen to these temporizers in Polktown who professed themselves satisfied if the license was taken away from the Lake View Inn.
From How Janice Day Won by Long, Helen Beecher
Though the temporizers came over to the secessionists, and with them came Stephens, there was still a minority of 89 irreconcilables against the majority numbering 208.
From The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)
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