Word: qualm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quayle storm is, in fact, about more than a 19-year-old military record. The young Senator's stumbling attempts to defuse the issue showed how inexperienced he is on a national stage. In addition, the charges resonated because they reflected a deeper qualm about Quayle: that he is somewhat of a lightweight. Too junior to be a committee chairman when the Republicans ruled the Senate, and not regarded as a legislative craftsman, Quayle seems emblematic of the type of Senator who performs better in campaign ads than in committee rooms. The press made a concerted effort to communicate...
...some tastes. After so many choruses of our national anthem and chants of "U.S.A.!," the impulse might be to wish for someone else to win, just in the interest of seemliness and hospitality, if not future international relations. But the athletes can hardly be expected to understand any such qualm, particularly those whose true primes passed silently in 1980, and who therefore never really had a prime. Maybe ABC is not just being parochial or pragmatic in seeming to do little else but pan from one American face to another, because frankly it has been hard to look away. Almost...
AQUESTION OVER who constitutes the proper audience for The Heroic Age produces one's chief qualm with the novel. No doubt Greeks will be better able to appreciate Haviaras's writing the novel in English Haviaras also commits himself to pleasing an American audience. While he is careful to give the reader the brute information necessary to understand the names of the political groups, be is slightly lay in establishing the meaning of this information. A certain animating philosophical passion would make this book more accessible to American readers, transmuting the craftsmanlike and episodic plot into a story more obviously...
Both Harvard and boats have been together for barely a week and four of the varsity oarsmen and their cox are sophomores (freshmen are ineligible for Ivy League varsity crew competition): In fast, Fitzgerald's only qualm about the contest was that "we let Penn slip by us for fourth place...
...inflicted on them in Lebanon and their increasingly exposed position, quite a few of the Marines are less than enthusiastic about sea duty. Says Lance Corporal Tom Auld of Pittsburgh: "I'd rather stay on shore here than spend a long time steaming around in circles." An understandable qualm perhaps, but it would be difficult to imagine more confining quarters than the bunkers into which the Marines were driven while trying to keep the peace in Lebanon...