Word: cowering
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Publicly, Ford at first remained adamant against curtailing his freewheeling travel and politicking. His voice husky after his scare in San Francisco, Ford declared on returning to the White House that he did not intend "to cower in the face of a limited number of people ?out of 214 million Americans?who want to take the law into their own hands. We're going to stand tall and strong in this confrontation with people who don't represent...
...belief that both the courts and the press have been overreacting to the Sheppard decision since it came down in 1966. I have seen trial judges issue gag orders when they, because of their own harsh conduct, have been the chief beneficiaries. I have seen seasoned journalists cower in the face of oppressive orders and then insist on their right to print a defendant's criminal record the night before jury selection begins...
During this streak, Bullard accounted for every Crimson tally. Enemy goalies now cower when Bullard winds up to kick, and opposing coaches know that they must check Bullard to beat the Crimson...
...this fruitless ambiguity is made worse by the realistic tone of the narration, which is totally at odds with the content. George Orwell persuades us easily in Animal Farm that beasts talk, but Berger fails to establish a mood in which it is believable that larger and stronger men cower before swaggering women, and that an entire society has lost all knowledge of normal...
...left. The inhabitants of The City survive in a condition they cannot bear and cannot conceive of escaping from. They endure by shooting heroin (the whole book could work on the level of a descent into a junkie's world), by eating human flesh out of insane hunger; they cower in corners to avoid facing each other; they go to movie houses and play pool...