Word: flinch
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When he was a high school senior, scouts starting calling, talking about selecting him as a pitcher in the middle rounds. But Trey didn’t flinch when Art told all of them not to bother, because his boy was going to Harvard...
...charge of smuggling, the Fedayeen were schooled to become a ruthless instrument for quelling dissent. Skilled in torture and assassination and willing to die for Saddam, the Fedayeen are perfectly suited to their dual mission behind enemy lines. They have always operated outside the law, so they don't flinch at adopting guerrilla ruses damned by the Geneva Convention. They're willing to turn their AK-47s on Iraqis to keep them from surrendering. British officers say the Fedayeen are forcing the unwilling remnants of Iraq's 51st Infantry Division to continue the fight at Basra...
...their hero. "The day may dawn," declared Churchill in his 1955 parliamentary farewell, "when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth, serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair." The colonies may be gone, but Churchill showed how the supple power of the English language - whose reach still grows - can forge an empire on which the sun need never...
...Congress of already-known information. Yet at the press conference announcing his selection of Kissinger, Bush advised the committee to “follow all the facts, wherever they lead.” With Kissinger in charge and presidential instructions to go all out, the committee will not flinch in proposing broad revisions to the intelligence community’s methods, organizational structure and domain of operations. Far from being only a reflective study on what could have prevented last year’s terrorist attacks, the panel’s chief purpose will be to develop proactive policy recommendations...
...away--and stop firing--as the wounded Americans limped to a safer spot. "He showed almost no concern for his body," says Sergeant Jeffrey Grothause, one of Perez's soldiers. "He's up there, and rounds are flying all around him, in between his legs, and he doesn't flinch. He keeps firing...