Word: blanch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professional educators blanch at the movement's expansion, and as the trend increases, their concerns rise about the quality of such instruction. Bruce Wheeler, an industrial-arts teacher in Wilton, N.H., frets about his nephew Solon Sadoway's progress. "This is a hit-or-miss effort," he says. "If he doesn't learn something, nobody notices." "If you need a license to cut hair," argues Donald Bemis, state supervisor of public instruction in Michigan, "you should have one to mold a kid's mind...
Americans have gone gaga for natural foods, but do they really know what they're getting? Some answers can be found in the FDA's updated Food Defect Action Levels list, which indicates limits for "natural or unavoidable" substances in processed food. While people might blanch at eating insects and | their excreta, many entomologists insist that the only harm is psychological. Some even contend that the government should allow more bugs in food so that crops can be grown with fewer pesticides...
...college fraternities, athletic teams foster a spirit of exclusivity, camaraderie and solidarity. Jocks not only play together but also often eat and live together. And personal integrity is frequently a weak match for group loyalty. In a mob, especially one fueled by alcohol or drugs, individuals may not blanch at joining in a gang rape. "They will do anything to please each other," observes psychologist Sandler. "They are raping for each other. The woman is incidental." And, she adds, "they don't think of it as rape even when the victim is unconscious. Rape is something done...
...then, a quarter of a century later, do I still find painful the memory of those six undernourished envelopes? Why do I periodically peek into college-rating handbooks to see how Michigan is faring against the Ivy League? And why do I sometimes blanch when friends innocently suggest lunch at the Harvard Club...