Word: flinch
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This second congressional battle of the budget promises to be tough. It could, in fact, crack the solid Republican support that Reagan enjoyed this summer. Conservative hawks might balk at reductions in projected military spending. Other Republicans might flinch at deeper cuts in already lean social programs. Observes Democratic Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona: "There are 20 or 30 liberal Republicans in the House who are embarrassed with their constituencies. They can't go on [supporting Reagan] forever...
...Mujahedin flinch. On the day of the Raja'i and Bahonar funerals, Mujahedin gunmen assassinated two more ranking Khomeini supporters. One was Hojjatoleslam Seyed Nasser Banijamal, director of internal affairs at Tehran's Court for Combatting Sin. Three days later, Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards fought an eight-hour gun battle with Mujahedin in Tehran's streets. According to the government's own reports, more than 100 similar shootouts with Mujahedin and other leftist guerrillas have erupted in cities as far flung as Bandar Abbas on the gulf and Astara on the Soviet border...
...need to be carried out in order to do their damage. The law knows this, which is why it distinguishes between assault and battery, yet labels assault a crime in itself. If the threat is made by a seasoned threatener like the Soviet Union, the threatened party will flinch as a matter of reflex or good judgment. That is the immediate effect, and the less enduring. A far deeper effect, and the one that tyrants crave, occurs when a victim is so cowed that he anticipates the threatener's desires, and behaves accordingly...
...same old story. Truth usually is the same old story." Almost menacingly, Skinner leaned toward her and charged, "We'll get you out?either in this place or outside it." The threat of going outside Parliament to bring down a government brought gasps from many M.P.s. Thatcher did not flinch. "Rubbish," she replied. Then she added, "Indeed, he is the face of the true new Labor Party?not of its democrats?but those who have moved further and further left, towards the East European type of economy." Again came a momentary hush, and then Tory M.P.s broke into cheers...
...people who think that Kung Fu is only practiced in movie theatres, Mondays exhibition should be both impressive and entertaining. Just remember--don't flinch...