Word: recoiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a sensitivity to Constitutional principles or ethical standards which might have stopped them short. An administration which burgled and bugged the home of syndicated columnist Joseph Kraft and so many others with the approval of its highest officials can hardly plead that these same officials would recoil in shock from a proposal to wiretap Larry O'Brien...
...make a point, belting out his words in enthusiastic Korean, which an aide quickly translates. After two decades of such evangelizing, Moon's church and its affiliates (One World Crusade and the Freedom Leadership Foundation, among others) seem to be just hitting their stride. Although orthodox Christians recoil from Moon's teachings, the Moonists claim 600,000 followers worldwide, with perhaps 100,000 "core members" who are willing to give up their personal lives entirely to work for the master. In the U.S., there are some 3,000 core members, perhaps another 7,000 sympathizers...
...does not help Lady Bird to accept her new identity as a widow. The term itself makes her recoil: "I don't like that word-it comes from a Sanskrit word meaning empty. That is a harsh thought." She also cannot quite grasp that Lyndon is irrevocably gone. "The children and I find ourselves still speaking of him in the present tense. And when I'm reading a book, I find myself turning down the corner of a page, the way I always did when I wanted to talk to him about that passage. The worst time...
...fact, was harsher in West European countries. In Paris, Le Monde compared the bombing to the Nazi destruction of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War. Britain's biggest newspaper, the Daily Mirror, commented: "The American resumption of the bombing of North Viet Nam has made the world recoil in revulsion...
...liked them a lot. The notion of violence, artistically treated, pleases me aesthetically. People died in the Wild Bunch with more simultaneous grace and realism than I'd ever seen. And I admired the cinematic ingenuity displayed in the assault sequence of Straw Dogs. I couldn't recoil in horror because I never forgot I was watching a movie...