Word: flinch
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After two months of the hardest, most spectacular work, General Johnson was beginning to get his second wind. His health was a matter of national concern; if he cracked, the whole NRA campaign might go under. His eyes were swollen from lack of sleep. Flashlamps were making him flinch. His temper was running short. President Roosevelt had to command him to get a night's sleep when he flew to Hyde Park fortnight ago (TIME, August 14). Even the fatherly New York Times last week advised him to "ease...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: an able legislator, a sincere, "almost fanatically high-minded" Democrat who directs party policies, hence is usually "regular," a politician who did not flinch at making enemies of such influential tycoons as Oilmen Doheny and Sinclair...
...Zimbalist, like other astute artists, sometimes alters his fee to fit the occasion. Recently, a Manhattan dowager telephoned him, bidding him play at one of her musicales. "And what, Mr. Zimbalist, will be your fee?' "Five thousand dollars, Madam." The dowager did not flinch. "And you under stand, Mr. Zimbalist, that you will not be expected to mix with the guests." "Ah, Madam, in that case it is only one thousand...
...Daniel confessed not, neither did he it all flinch...
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer