Word: recoil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major stumbling-blocks to men entering retailing are the tough training programs. College graduates recoil at the prospect of six to 18 more months of detailed training during which time they will perform no responsible function, but even business school graduates are required to submit to the technical merchandising instruction...
...state." Great Britain, also a colonial power, announced that it will support the French. But 14 Arab and Asian countries propose that the problem be discussed by the General Assembly. The U.S., which has supported France in its noninterference position, is now wavering. Members of the U.S. delegation recoil before the accusation from the small nations (and the U.S.S.R.) that the U.S. is refusing to let a complaint even be heard...
King George chose to live as normally as possible. On the last day of his life he was out shooting hares. Although the King used special shells to reduce recoil, his weakened frame still had to take the repeated kick of a shotgun. There is no reason to believe that this hastened his death. During the night, as might have happened any other night in recent years, the blood slowed down in one of the King's hardened (and narrowed) coronary arteries. As it slowed, it thickened. Finally, it formed a large clot, and the King's life...
...gulping Scotch in an unguarded moment, she agrees to give up these peccadilloes, but only if he will forgo them too. She manages to squelch his romance with a French singer (Paula Corday), and when she turns his paternal good-night kiss into something more heated, she makes Johnson recoil with the stunned horror of a man discovering that, deep down, he is an all-too-willing fiend...
...suddenness of the offensive at least momentarily stunned the Communists. At the southwest end of the active front, the British Commonwealth Division, going into action as a combined unit for the first time, flanked by the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division and the Greek battalion, took up the Red recoil, achieved its objectives on the second day. The U.S. 3rd Division breached the Red line northwest of Chorwon. Fierce fighting developed at the northeast end, along the long line of rugged peaks of Heartbreak Ridge...