Word: flinch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the revolutionary mood. He turned out in a baggy khaki uniform left over from his successful Costa Rican revolution of 1948. He arrived early for the big workers' parade in downtown Havana, sat dutifully on the speakers' stand while the unions marched, did not flinch when a drizzle began and Castro ordered the stand's striped tarpaulin ripped away, saying: "If the people...
...time after Eisenhower's 1952 victory. His party loyalty code soon led him to support policies of the middle-roading Administration, e.g., public housing, reciprocal trade, foreign aid, with the same narrow-eyed gung ho he had mustered against the same programs for 17 years. He did not flinch. "Damn you, you've got to be with us on this one," he twanged at reluctant colleagues. "The President needs your support-and so do I." Many an Administration measure squeaked through because the vigilant Halleck stood in the House well on close votes, collected from errant Republicans...
...undergraduates quarrel with economy, and most have nobly refused to flinch when board rates rose suddenly--even when the Scholarship Committee tended to look the other way. But the Council Report has revealed that the dining hall habit is not so ingrained at Harvard as University Hall wants to think...
...justice under law. In addition, today, we have a new factor to help in the acceptance of such a plan-a compulsion to try to preserve life itself which is a force that will not be denied. Certainly the peoples of our host country who did not flinch or hesitate when one of their greatest leaders, Winston Churchill, offered them only blood, toil, tears and sweat, will respond to this new challenge...
Some Gillies operations are notable for lively ingenuity: he has reconstructed eyelids, complete with lashes, from the edge of the eyebrow. Others are heroic. He does not flinch from cutting through the bones of the upper jaw so that most of the face is detached from its moorings, then fixing the bones in a new alignment. And some patients are heroic: a woman whose entire lower jaw was removed for cancer in 1939, so that her tongue hung down her neck, has had 27 plastic operations. She has a new lower jaw with a denture, and eats normally. Though...