Word: flinch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps not there. It is hard to be different among crowds of other people trying to be different. In the Dada decade, Marcel Duchamp could shock people by exhibiting a urinal turned upside down and calling it Fountain. Seeing it for the first time today, hardly anvone would flinch-although a few might try to flush...
...avuncular speech in Coconut Square. Then he touched down at the curious condominium of New Hebrides, jointly run since 1906 by the French and the British. French officials in crisp kepis stood side by side with their British counterparts in pith helmets as De Gaulle, without a flinch, cried: "Vive la France, Vive le Royaume...
Even people who don't give a single thought to double-entendres flinch these days when a sultry woman flips onto their TV screens to ask coyly: "Had any lately?" What she wants to know is whether the viewer has had any Chateau Martin champagne, vermouth or wine. Chateau Martin's eight-week-old question is also being asked on radio, bus and subway posters, in magazine ads and on lapel buttons. Crestwood Advertising, Inc., which designed the campaign, credits it with a 48% increase in Chateau Martin sales...
...intelligent Harvard student, could be afraid of "aggressive managers" on the part of those workers is ond all levels of comprehension. These workers were dreadfully afraid of the local police. One worker who was in Minnesota for a few days said, "I was a paranoid, I started to flinch every time I saw a police car. I had to remind myself that I wasn't in Mississippi." The fear was in the hearts of the COFO workers, not the natives, not the guntoting "peace" officers typified by Sheriff Rainey and his deputy...
...only Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government, rose to a level of sustained epigram. "Even the Germans flinch," he said, "at Sen. Goldwater's mixture of the big stick, the large mouth and the small brain...