Word: blushful
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...this the church does not renounce her thesis . . . but merely adapts herself . . . Hence arises the great scandal among Protestants . . . We ask Protestants to understand that the Catholic church would betray her trust if she were to proclaim . . . that error can have the same rights as truth . . . The church cannot blush for her own want of tolerance, as she asserts it in principle and applies it in practice...
...college, Robert Richard Chappuis, 24, carries his football reputation lightly. Unlike hail-fellow Tom Harmon, he is incapable of calling everybody on campus by his first name. His snaggleteeth and sharp features earned him the nickname "Bird Face" when he was a kid. An easy way to make him blush (as his teammates do when things get dull) is to ask him for his autograph...
...England, come Saturdays, as many as 85,000 people flock to see the soccer games, but in the American turnabout soccer's mostly born to blush unseen. Yet for those who wish to see what now rates as the key contest of the College soccer season, the game starts at 1 o'clock as the undefeated Harvard and Dartmouth elevens clash in the old-English game...
...arena of an Osaka theater, two muddy Japanese girls lifted and tugged at each other (see cut). Their holds were amateurish. Their disparate weights (240 and 120 pounds respectively) would have made the most jaded U.S. groan-&-grunt promoter blush. But the panting young women were symbols of a national effort. With free elections, polite policemen and Coca-Cola machines, Japanese had sought to ape U.S. ways. Now the ultimate imitation had been achieved-female wrestling on a mat of liquid...
...writer of popular fiction* that usually (thank God) winds up on best-seller lists and in the movies, may I be one of my craft to blush publicly for Taylor Caldwell's letter. . . . TIME giggles at us "popular writers" in a silly effort to convince the public that it is literate enough to appreciate Henry Miller and Joyce. We don't fool you and you don't fool us. We only envy you because you have God's unlisted telephone number and we have only bosomy women and sinewy men to work with...