Word: flinch
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Studio One did not flinch at an unhappy ending. Smith groveled in a prison pit, was tortured into admitting that two and two make five, came screaming out of a chamber of hungry rats, and confirmed his fealty to Big Brother in an emotionless, post-brainwashing meeting with Julia. It was a production that could easily have gone embarrassingly grotesque at one false move, but maturity of view and painstaking execution (stagehands were fitted with felt shoe pads to keep out distracting noises) combined to make the first tele-version of Nineteen Eighty-Four a major TV achievement...
Maurois does not flinch from giving a clinical history of the relationships that caused George Sand to be described as "a walking graveyard." Nor does he deny that it was her fatal psychological weakness always to pick on men who were too weak to dominate her. And yet. his complete portrait convincingly presents a figure of memorable strength. Sand, Maurois shows, was the forerunner of today's emancipated woman. All her characteristics would have been considered admirable-in a man. Her friends were legion; most of her ex-lovers confessed that though she had nearly been the death...
...President did not flinch. He answered in a blunt letter made public last week: "The failure of Iran and the United Kingdom to reach an agreement with regard to compensation has handicapped the Government of the United States in its efforts to help Iran ... I am not trying to advise the Iranian government on its best interests. I am merely trying to explain why, in the circumstances, the Government of the United States is not presently in a position to extend more aid to Iran or to purchase Iranian oil ... [I] hope that before it is too late the government...
...save the Rosenbergs" may have inspired the pleas, but many of them came from non-Communist clergymen and scientists, from liberals and humanitarians, from those who thought it bad politics to let the Communists have "martyrs" for their propaganda. At the focus of pressure, Dwight Eisenhower did not flinch...
...catching on, pretended that he was trying to escape. Salih was captured and arraigned for judgment before the local ruler, Emir Saud ibn Jiluwi, who decreed the traditional Arabian punishment for a habitual thief: public amputation of his right hand. Salih calmly accepted the verdict and did not even flinch when the Emir's men chopped off his hand at the wrist-for he knew that he had got off lightly. If he and Juliet had been charged with their actual crime-adultery-both would have been tied into a jute bag, set afire, tossed to the ground from...