Word: flinch
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...Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer...
Then raise the scarlet standard high, Within its shade we'll live and die, Though cowards flinch and traitors
...Americans and the British. They want the agreement to be moral in content. Whether they reckon with the possibility that moral unity may prove to be a pious dream in a world that includes both communists and free enterprisers is something else again. Even the most intransigent of realists flinch at the prospect of continued war between these two groups...
Trial Ahead. Some anxious citizens hoped the U.S. was storing strength for the ordeal ahead. Japan, stronger every day behind its vast perimeter of defenses, could base the hope of victory on one belief alone: that when the time came the U.S. would flinch at paying the price of a fight to the finish. That price would be high if the U.S. attacked Japan this year. However high, it might be only a fraction of the price, next year. Time was on Japan's side...
Patriot De la Chapelle knew when he pulled the trigger that he would pay with his life. Under a rigorous colonial third degree he would say only: "No accomplices were needed to do justice." Before the firing squad he did not flinch...