Word: flinch
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Hersh's methods and conclusions have been controversial. He's a volcanic man, one who doesn't flinch at shouting through the phone at a reluctant informant. Hersh has had second thoughts about some of his sources. For his book The Samson Option, about Israel's nuclear-weapons program, he depended on Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer with a penchant for intricate tales. But a story in the November Vanity Fair quotes Hersh as now saying that Ben-Menashe "lies like people breathe...
...filibuster McConnell has sworn to bring against it. But with so much more attention on finance corruption, talking the bill to death would risk a public backlash against Republicans. So before it comes to that, Lott is likely this week to start attaching amendments designed to make Democrats flinch...
...government will keep control of a few strategic industries like steel and armaments. But it will otherwise relinquish the common ownership of production that has underpinned the Communist Party's claim that China is still a socialist nation. However much elders of the party might flinch at the crumbling of their faith, Jiang is sure to win endorsement from the 15th Party Congress, meeting for seven days in the capital to set the country's agenda for the next five years. The inefficient and money-losing businesses have become such a burden that the leadership can no longer...
...Meyer assigns to me. I take a steak knife and stab an inch-long, inch-deep incision into the shark's back--no easy task, considering that its skin is as thick as a watermelon rind and as tough as leather. The shark doesn't even flinch. "That's nothing," Meyer reassures me, "compared with the wounds they inflict on each other during mating." I slip a barb-tipped wire with a white plastic tag into the incision and tug hard to anchor it in place...
...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...