Word: recoils
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Guildford Four recently, his reaction is: "Those poor guys, those Muslims - that's exactly what happened to us. Has nobody learned?" The Guildford Four's story was the subject of a film, In the Name of the Father, with Emma Thompson playing you - yet you recoil from publicity. Did that make you feel uncomfortable? I haven't seen the film, although I thought it was extremely important that the story of the Conlon family be told. I think the lawyer was just used as a dramatic device. I wasn't important at all. But Gerry Conlon compared you to Joan...
...Wildly Wrong? Emotional reaction along these lines was sharply opposed to the reaction of the U.S. Government, which knew a year and a half ago most of the facts that the public learned last week about the H-bomb. The Government, working with these facts, did not recoil in horror and abandon the new weapon. Instead, it built upon its H-bomb knowledge the Dulles policy of possible "massive retaliation" against further Communist acts of aggression...
...didn’t even recoil at the utterly sad and somewhat ironic inability of the United States to beat Mexico and Canada...
...realize that they still have many questions—good ones—about the various forces that led to Summers’ resignation. Where faculty members see a tyrant dismissive of their work and opinions, students see a leader who seems genuinely interested in their lives. When professors recoil at the sight of Larry Summers signing dollar bills, undergraduates clamor for more autographs. To faculty, Summers is an arrogant power-broker; to students, he is an accessible celebrity. After all, this is a man who visits the Houses, dances to hip hop at first-year social events, and fools...
...When the flight attendant came to collect the trash, I tried to pop the bag into her sack, only to have her recoil and inform me that ?human fluids? could not go in the trash, because it was headed back to the galley. Diapers had to go in the lavatory garbage, she sniffed, knowing full well I wasn?t allowed out of my seat...