Word: flinch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours before the service, West German President Richard von Weizsacker had challenged his countrymen not to flinch from their responsibility for the Holocaust. "Every German was able to experience what his Jewish compatriots had to suffer, ranging from plain apathy and hidden intolerance to outright hatred," he declared in a speech in parliament. "But too many people (attempted) not to take notice of what was happening. When the unspeakable truth . . . became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it, or even suspected anything...
...HAVE TO ADMIRE the British: when they make a movie featuring a potentially cute, domesticated animal, they don't flinch at decapitating it and serving it up on a platter. A Private Function, touted as the resurrection of classic English comedy, is not for those who feel squeamish at the thought of a diarrhetic pig in their living room. Like a London bag lady who still bothers to curtsy, though, this film carries itself with a reserved sense of class, quite above movies like Bachelon Party or Porky's. Clearly the cardinal sin for British funnymen...
...kept their sea-landing life jackets on for the first 24 hours, as they struggled through waist-high water. Says Liska: "We were just like sitting ducks for the Germans, sitting ducks in a pond." Human corpses became so familiar to Liska that by an odd flinch of his mind he vividly recalls instead pastures full of dead cows. "They were all lying there on their backs with their legs in the air," he says, "and I remember thinking that I never had seen a dead cow before...
...Iran-Iraq conflict. Moreover popular horror movies contain scenes more graphic than any execution. We are a society that cheers as "Dirty Harry" blows away criminals with a .44 Magnum. We have become acclimated to murder, whether by criminals or by the state. Why should we even flinch when we see a real televised homicide--especially when it's done in the name of justice...
...common lungs and a common circulatory system." Moscow, in turn, is so confident of the fealty of the country's 8.9 million people that no Soviet troops are stationed on its soil. Says an official in the West German Foreign Ministry: "The relationship is Pavlovian. The Soviets flinch, and the Bulgarians snap...