Word: flinch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kluckhohn, who commended Flinch for his work in the program told the audience that the American people must take up the challenge the Seminar offers. "It's too important," she stated...
Most of last week's conferees were down-to-earth men who flinch from sensationalism. They hate to hear the "Mark III and its fellows called "mechanical brains." They insist that the machines have no intellect, but merely obey commands...
Most of last week's conferees were down-to-earth men who flinch from sensationalism. They hate to hear the "Mark III and its fellows called "mechanical brains." They insist that the machines have no intellect, but merely obey commands...
...shooting a cop in the pants during a brawl outside his saloon) stared down the quiet sidewalks of Broad Street and said: 'We got more excitement in the 43rd ward at 11 o'clock in the morning when the guys is all in church." Delegates seemed to flinch at signs which read: ALL 48 IN '48 and KEEP AMERICA HUMAN WITH TRUMAN...
...horses, six abreast, ploughed through the crowd up to the squat downs. Defeated, inflamed and humiliated, they scrambled backwards. One or two aimed blows at the horses' heads. Some tried pushing cigarets into horseflesh. For a moment there was a whiff of burnt hair. The horses did not flinch. The bus slowly ground its way through, followed by lesser vehicles. A man sat down again in the road, yelling: "Come on, you yellow-livered bastards, sit down!" But no one joined...