Word: recoiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mention of Stanford meant much. That was where President Ford was to speak on the following day. "A red light went on in my head," O'Shea recalled later. The bulb glowed more brightly when she said, "I'm going to ask you something that will make you recoil in horror. Can you have me arrested...
This very British novel is about a man whose face is his misfortune, by a woman whose name may be hers. Its protagonist, Godfrey Pettlement, is so hideous that children whimper and adults recoil in shock when they see him. Even horror-film producers find him too ugly to cast. "One doesn't think of you having a normal figure," somebody tells Pettlement. "It would be more in keeping if you somehow sploshed along the ground or were drawn by suction power...
Meanwhile, HEW conducts a constant monitoring of the program, evaluating its progress largely by comparing the numbers of women and minorities actually hired with the numbers predicted in the plan. These numbers are a tricky business because they remind many people in universities of quotas, which make academics recoil in horror...
Politicians instinctively recoil from alienating any sizable segment of opinion, which is one reason - apart from the dilatory tactics of the White House - why Watergate and impeachment have taken so long to come to resolution. The arguments of the hard-core Nixonites have been heard and debated at great length. That is the true right of a minority, and it is being fully satisfied. There is no denying that if the minority loses once the issue is put to the test, it will still find the decision hard to accept. But the rights of a minority do not include having...
...black-tie dinners, and final clubs provide hope of finding a way to realize the style of life they seek. Yet a distance between the student and his search for class develops. Some become nervous, some become alienated; probably out of a sense of guilt or inadequacy, they recoil from the traditional situations for which they yearn--they wear a workshirt with their tuxedo. Even clubbies show qualms about their exclusivity, which has already been eroded...