Word: blushes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Equally distressing is that the University apparently did not blush at using the White House to influence what was essentially a local problem, hardly connected with the national interest...
Freud considered himself unshockable, but a trip to Paris in 1885 made him blush. "I don't think they know the meaning of shame or fear; the women no less than the men crowd round nudities." His fiancee plans a tourist jaunt with a girl friend. Freud tut-tuts: "Should that be allowed? Two single girls traveling alone in North Germany!" At the age of 73, the famed silver-cord cutter is still in an Oedipal tangle with his 94-year-old mother: "I somehow could not forgive myself if I were to die before...
...description makes Mme. Vuillier blush like a Cub Scout den mother who has been praised for her chocolate-chip cookies. "Please don't call me a magician," she says. "My magic is science. My art is genealogy. A good pedigree reads to me as a Bach fugue sounds to a musician. It's heredity that's winning, not the horse. What difference does it make what the horse looks like, so long as he has the correct genealogy...
...extol the virtues of British food, the Economist says, "native critics feel distinctly uneasy," for "where would the tourist find that exquisite rare roast beef?" Ads for clean, spacious British Railways carriages are so far from the grubby reality that they "are guaranteed to make any Englishman blush...
...goes Don Juan-into a most un-Seville world. He tries to guitar his way through a modern woman's window, but she (Beverly McFadden) is impatient with all that jazz. Her door stands open. He purrs softly: "To describe your beauty, night, which veils your modesty, would blush." "Modesty?" says the broad. "I only slipped this on because it's a little cool after the sun goes down." Her husband (Alex Reed) enters with unbatting eyes, offers his wife's new lover a friendly drink. Don Juan is crushed. He is looking for trust to trespass...