Word: flinch
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...Ideologically, Peking and Moscow are blood brothers. Of all the Kremlin's allies, Mao, to judge by his own behavior, should be the last to flinch at cruelties, big lies or broken promises...
Seagrave did not flinch, but suddenly he looked older than his 53 years. For almost half his life Surgeon Seagrave had been giving medical aid to Burmese peasants, and then a crazy-quilt civil war, spreading around his hill-country hospital, had tangled him in bitter national rivalries. A Burmese reporter asked him for his reaction to the verdict. He replied: "Whatever some few do to me, I want you to know I still love the people of Burma." He added: "I sincerely hope the American people will not judge the people of Burma by the actions...
Cribbage, parchesi, flinch, or lotto. But I liked to kiss Little Fred and Otto...
...TIME & LIFE Building in the wake of our book, Strictly for the Birds, which I told you about recently. The business of miscalling our feathered friends has now been advanced, or retarded, by such additions to the aviary as the Blue Funk, the Lesser Evil, the Involuntary Flinch and, heaven protect us, the Working Gull. There have been many requests for additional copies of the bird book, and we are fulfilling them as long as the supply lasts...
...their meeting Smith offered Gathorne-Hardy an allowance so that he could do his own writing and help compile more Trivia. Two strings were attached: "I was not to get married; and I must not attempt to write bestselling novels." Gathorne-Hardy was not the sort of man to flinch before either condition...