Word: flinch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life sentence, but if he were true to his beliefs, he should welcome the hangman (or hypodermic man). For years, the book he has cherished is The Turner Diaries, a fictional account of an uprising by a courageous band of white supremacists. Earl Turner, the hero, does not flinch at the idea of dying for his cause. Indeed, in the book's final pages he joyfully embraces this fate. "Brothers!" he says, addressing an elite group called the Order. "When I entered your ranks for the first time, I consecrated my life to our Order and to the purpose...
...intensively as possible," says Hamilton. "Nature is to German culture and history what the Wild West is to Americans and the ocean is to the British." To this end, some credit villagers will take part in Grune Welle (green wave), an immersion program in environmental studies. "We don't flinch from the more difficult topics either," reports Hamilton. "This summer we'll be doing a Holocaust memorial service with the four-week people...
...difficult, some gaping flaws are still evident. The greatest mistake in the entire show is the casting of Jean Valjean himself. Except in the stellar "Bring Him House", Stone cannot muster the vocal richness the part calls for. Most of the time his coarse, grainy singing voice makes one flinch. Considering the role is one of the most coveted of all time in musical theater, how such poor casting could have occurred is difficult to understand. Another disappointment is found in Sheperd, who plays Thenardier's female partner in crime. She certainly looks as horrible as she needs...
Deep Blue didn't flinch. His gambit, Kasparov admits, was "a complete disaster, because the computer simply doesn't care. If the threats are not real, it sees that. So the machine simply took all the pawns and defended its king." And for an industry that IBM had built in the first place, scored the first win over a world champion. "Then I realized," he says, "that this will be tough...
...final 32 minutes of the matchup were evenly played, but the outcome was never really in question. Princeton, who had just come off an upset of Dartmouth, played an extremely physical ballgame, but the Crimson did not flinch. When it was over, all 16 Harvard players had seen action...