Word: flinch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncanny way, Nixon and Disraeli fought similar political battles-which may support the liberal charge that conservatives never change or the conservative charge that conditions never change. Though both believed in a strong government that would not flinch from taking resolute action, they were hostile to big bureaucracy, with its overcentralization and deadening uniformity. They preferred to accept society in all its luxuriant if inegalitarian variety; they made a policy of trying to pump life and vigor into local government. As an American politician, Nixon can hardly endorse aristocracy but he would surely agree with Disraeli's praise...
...vying for the starting nod. Restic refuses to announce his starter until game time, a tradition he established last year, and there is virtually no way of pinning down who will get the nod. Crone, Stoeckel and Guerra have an advantage in varsity experience, but Restic would not flinch at throwing a sophomore (Holt) into the pressure cooker as last year's Dartmouth start by Stoeckel proves Holt showed well in the Brown scrimmage completing 8 of 10 passes and as Restic is quick to point out, the sophomore has the most experience in the coache's offensive system. Holt...
Instant action! Calamity! Martin flinches a giant's flinch, falls off his chair and bangs his face against the metal leg of the kitchen table. He breaks off two teeth. The last sentences of Goldberg's story are these: "Slowly, leaking out of every muscle in his body, the tears gathered. Rushing forward, the little printer took his trembling son in his arms and, caressing him like an infant, cried triumphantly for all the world to hear, 'You're a good boy, Martin. You're a good...
...after you're thoroughly hooked on this music, you'll start hearing it everywhere. Take me, for instance. When I hear the screech of a narrowly-averted three-car collision. no longer do I flinch. I just think that someone. somewhere, is playing Songs of the Humpback whale...
...N.A.B. is one of the few modern versions to address God directly as "you" instead of the reverential "thee" or "thou."* In many familiar passages, Catholics should welcome the clarity of modern language (see box), but some may flinch when the priest at a wedding intones: "Let no man separate what God has joined," instead of, "What God has joined together, let no man put asunder." Something is missing, too, when "the spirit is willing but nature is weak." Inexplicably, some words have become more obscure ("terebinth," for instance, replaces "turpentine tree"). And sometimes the translation seems...