Word: flinch
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...part of this here West, you'd better end all that killing. It just ain't right and there's no room for people like you while I'm sheriff." Reagan put a hand on the handle of his gun and flexed his fingers. South Africa didn't flinch...
...companies may flinch at the sight of Corporate Raider T. Boone Pickens, but in the retailing business the marauders to watch out for are Herbert Haft, 65, and his son Robert, 33, of Washington. As the owners of Dart Group, which runs the Crown Books and Trak Auto chains, the Hafts always seem to be shopping around for a major retailer. In the past two years they have bought large blocks of stock in May Department Stores and two pharmacy chains, Jack Eckerd and Revco. In each case the Hafts' move drove up the price of the stock...
Official persecution had ended long before last week's momentous visit--in 1870, when the papal states were overthrown and Italy abolished the ghetto. But the Pope did not flinch from obliquely recalling the church's harsh treatment of Jews. He decried the "gravely deplorable manifestations" of the past and, quoting from a declaration of the Second Vatican Council, stated that the church "deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti- Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone." Then the Pope added, to ringing applause, "I repeat: by anyone." John Paul also expressed "abhorrence...
...first Gorbachev did not flinch when his interviewers began asking questions about human rights in the Soviet Union. Asked about the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate, he responded blandly that Jews enjoy more "political and other rights" in the U.S.S.R. than in any other country. The exceptions to Soviet emigration policy are limited, he asserted, to people who "know state secrets." Challenged about the fate of Soviet Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, imprisoned since 1978, Gorbachev declared that the man had "breached our laws and was sentenced by court for that." But Gorbachev flushed and swallowed hard when Interviewer Yves Mourousi...
...actually fingers a nuclear trigger: a single squeeze would change the world forever. Farmer, for one, has thought through endless contingencies, including the nightmare of losing contact with Washington during a presumed attack. Says he: "I would not launch without authorization, period." By the same token, he does not flinch from the thought of carrying out his doomsday role. Says he: "If a captain is not prepared to execute, there is no deterrence...