Word: cower
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...strive to get every sensational rumor "in play" without being held responsible. The classic gambit is to print a rumor by way of criticizing the tabloids for running it. The new laundering device is hardcovers. Then, no matter how outlandish the content or how biased the publisher, you can cower behind "I read it in a book...
...cower at the admonitions of George Steinbrenner and buy tickets. We fear for the World Series until the players strike another legal agreement. We worry about local teams moving elsewhere to bigger and better stadiums built with taxpayer consent...
...police pursued the fleeing robbers, but soon ran out of ammunition. A squad car broke down. Officers mistook a passing van for a getaway car and fired on it; inside was a police colonel, who sought refuge in a nearby supermarket. Said Jun Grajales, a university teacher: ``People now cower in fear when they see cops, whereas before they used to sigh in relief.'' The gunmen remain at large...
Students who are lucky enough to get syllabi are possessing of a sufficient status symbol to be considered middle class. The lower classes cower in corners straining to get the merest glance of the professor. Often they will try to borrow a syllabus in order to appear of a higher class, but the pitiful pose collapses as the rightful owner reposseses his prized Xerox. But the syllabus-bearing middle class attempts frauds of its own. Some, for example, perch on radiators and try to look as comfortable in their makeshift accomodations as do the nobility in their plush aisles...
...posturing" as feminists for the sole purpose of advancing their careers. The absurdity of Paglia's accusations hardly needs comment. Since when did being a feminist help any woman's tenure portfolio? Paglia paints a picture of an Academy so terrorized by feminist ideologues that the old boys faintly cower in terror, their hands--no doubt--cupped in front of their, er, more private parts. Move over, Harvey Mansfield and endowed co., here comes Lorena Bobbitt and not only is she pissed, but--much worse--she's tenured...