Word: flinch
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...what do we attribute this Arab spring? While American (and European) liberal and "realist" critics are seeking some explanation, those a bit closer to the scene don't flinch from the obvious. "It is strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq," Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt explained to David Ignatius of the Washington Post. "I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people...
...Cage’s career has been going downhill since The Rock. I say thee nay! He pulled off a tour-de-force that had me fooled for about 20 minutes that he was destined for immortality when he got shot in Con Air and didn’t flinch or anything. But he couldn’t pull the wool over our eyes forever. We know those were fake bullets...
...this teen version of The Cannonball Run. The most likely problem, I thought, would be car trouble. Gabby drives a 1994 Volvo that she has personalized with dents, scratches, parking tickets, missing wheel covers and a trunk that won't open. But the indestructible Swedish oldsters don't flinch at being driven over curbs or smacking poles in parking lots...
...achieved all that with two qualities: courage and conviction. Conviction led him to initiate economic shock therapy to pull the U.S. out of the stagflation of the 1970s. Courage allowed him not to flinch when his radical economic policies (and those of a merciless Federal Reserve) initially caused the worst recession since the Great Depression--and during a congressional election year (1982) to boot...
...confront the "evil empire" but then backing off enough to give Mikhail Gorbachev room to change course. Reagan may have been the champion of missile defense, but he also declared as his dream the complete abolition of nuclear weapons, a position that made even the moderates around him flinch...