Word: skittishness
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French ace: " Riding in the Bois de Boulogne, I was thrown from my mount, a skittish mare, into some bushes. The bushes broke my fall...
...devil's advocate" to take up the verbal cudgels for the unpopular side of the argument. This until the connotation changes, will be much the position of the Conservative wing of the newly formed Harvard Debating Union. The present generation shied at the word conservative as a skittish horse from a piece of newspaper, and with as much reason...