Word: qualms
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...Dempsey the fearless, who has faced Carpentier, Firpo the "Argentine bull", and Tom Gibbons, the hardest hitter in the ring, without a qualm, lost his nerve. "Professor Dempsey? That's a hot one," he is reported to have said as he dismissed the crestfallen pedagogue...
...inhabitants of stageland go their exciting ways, tangling up their affairs most marvelously. They commit their crimes without regard for the law. They do their dying with never a thought of asking if there is a doctor in the house. And you sit by, indelicately observant, with never a qualm of conscience at having stripped them of all reticence, peeped through an imaginary keyhole at their utmost intimacies...
...with great interest that the College awaits the result of the battle of words and baseball this afternoon between the CRIMSON and the lampoon. But as a matter of fact, we have not the slightest qualm in anticipating that the score published tomorrow morning will be 23-2: It has been that for the last fifteen years. The lbis and his inky companion are certain to disagree between themselves over the contents of the latest invention the hollow bat (The lampoon has offered a prize of one dollar and a free copy of one of the issues destroyed...
...hand, thought the demeaned himself by association with these public servants. Yet these same friends who would not soil their hands, they say, by entering the arena, would not hesitate if their pockets were threatened by legislation to hire some lobbyist to act for them, and never feel a qualm as to any questionable methods that might be used. In England men of education and men representing property rights go into public life and present their views fairly in debate and fight in the open forum for the principles in which they believe. In recent years in this country...
Then a great qualm came over him, and girding up his loins, he sped through an open green...