Word: blanch
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...safety, says plant operators focus security efforts on keeping bad guys out. They assume that no one with malicious intent will wind up at the controls and thus do not build in fail-safe mechanisms that would prevent a saboteur from engineering a catastrophe. As a result, says Paul Blanch, a nuclear-safety expert who oversaw reactors for Northeast Utilities in Connecticut for 25 years, "a knowledgeable terrorist inside a control room can cause a meltdown in fairly short order...
...expand the mission, up to 300 training instructors could be sent to Iraq to join the U.S. operation currently rebuilding the 260,000-strong Iraqi military force. But as the death toll mounts and the chaos widens, the prospect of NATO troops in Iraq makes many European governments blanch. On Friday, France and Belgium refused to sign off on that enlarged mission, setting the stage for more talks this week. Some argue that the alliance already has its hands full. The Afghanistan mission, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), is trying to counter increased violence...
Three cars, unwilling to cooperate, whistle past so fast and so close together it would make a member of the r.a.a.f.'s Roulettes display team blanch. Two kilometers on they are there again, stopped, the fighter pilots standing on a sparkling carpet of headlight glass. Evidently one of them has slipped momentarily out of formation, and to judge by their gestures and shouting, the consequences have taken everyone by surprise...
...balding beefcake with massive breasty pecs does military presses in the free weight room, but he doesn’t blanch when I walk confidently into the locker room. So far, so good. Strangely enough, the men’s locker room looks exactly the same as the women’s locker room...
...slide show was chilling: a cervix with precancerous lesions, shriveled fallopian tubes. But what made Seth Claude and his friends really blanch was a penis covered in sores and distended like an autumn gourd. "Before, I just thought if you got genital warts, maybe you had one or two, but then I saw the person with a bajillion of them and was, like, 'Whoa,'" says Seth, 13. "[The pictures] are enough to make you have nightmares...