Word: qualm
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Accordingly, he was not afraid of death and lived long and happily. He would have eaten cyclamates without a qualm, but he was not concerned about being fat either. And so, puffing gently at his pipe and sipping his whisky, he lived on, chatting with other old men, much too contented...
...personal affection for the man and his spirit rather than blind devotion to party and platform. This gave him flexibility in the 1946-58 period, when De Gaulle was out of power. Other Gaullists remember those years as "the crossing of the desert," but Chaban-Delmas served without qualm in the governments of Pierre Mendeè-France, Guy Mollet and Félix Gaillard. In recent months his independence emboldened him to define Gaullism in terms that echoed those of Pompidou: "Being a Gaullist means believing that the policies followed by De Gaulle have been, on the whole, good. This...
...woman. I can grovel before the original of this superb, unabashed sexual woman without a qualm. I ask only to bring the beauty of her limpid prose before the English-speaking world. Though if the reader will permit, I have stopped somewhat this side of abject enslavement. I ask only to bare this woman's essence to the world. We must know who she is. Why has she kept herself in secret? She must be a lovely creature to know so much of the whip...
When the first German bombers drone in over Belfast, Gavin is enthralled at the prospect of the adult world's destruction. "Come on, Hitler, blow up city hall" cries a leftist friend. "And Queen's University!" shrieks Gavin But in a qualm of conscience, he rushes back to the hospital for a 24-hour stint in the morgue, identifying and coffining the raid victims. Half-potted on hospital whisky, he grinds through the grisly work in a manner that wins admiration from doctors, medical students and even from his girl friend Sally. At the raid...
...goes, he dares not take Communion. Why? Ostensibly, because of a sinful love affair. But the affair is long over, and he still cannot bring himself to take Communion. Tortuously, he argues that if he no longer had any faith at all, he could take Communion without a qualm. The fact that he cannot is his last lingering hope: perhaps his loss of faith is visited on him as a judgment. "As long as I keep away from the sacraments," he explains, "my lack of belief is an argument for the Church. But if I returned and they failed...