Word: flinch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle of the spectrum DSOC is ready to go...would it support Humphrey? "I can't speak for the Committee as a whole, but I personally would find Humphrey very acceptable. Hubert's always been a favorite of mine." "And how about Jackson?" Harrington doesn't flinch: "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it." A DSOC member next to me offers, hopefully, "I hope we don't come to that bridge." Harrington smiles tightly. "We'll cross that bridge when we come...
Fear stalks Parent most often during preparation. "In practice, I'm very scared," he says. "It's no fun at all." Sometimes in a workout, Parent cannot overcome the natural life-preserving urge to flinch when the puck comes at him. "I try to keep my head down and get the shot," he says. "Sometimes I just can't do it." When that happens, Parent insists that his teammates fire a barrage of shots at him until he beats down his fear...
...have utter and absolute control over all your nerves. You go right on lying there in his arms letting what must have gone rigid inside you with his words go rigid away inside your skin, so his arms can't sense the difference, can't feel the animal flinch that maybe after all you couldn't avoid...
DARTMOUTH-HOLY CROSS--Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Jake's A-Hanging in the Closet and We're Feeling So Sad. My ass. I've enough pent-up resentment against Big Green superiority over the last four years not to flinch if Dartmouth repeats last week's UNH loss eight more times this season. Rick Klupchak is out for this one, and Holy Cross is better than UNH. Vomit is Green. Holy Cross 20, Dartmouth...
...CHADWICK does not flinch even a bit as he sits in Winthrop House dining hall. Light more intense than 10,000 suns is incandescing behind his sealed eyes, but he feels no pain. Only a sweet whiteness lies within his head. It overwhelms his thoughts, taking them away from exams, the dish of brown ice-cream melting on the table before him, and his father's plea that if he must give any money to a 15-year-old guru, he should turn over income only and keep his capital intact. Ted Chadwick has "had Knowledge" for over a year...