Word: sqeamish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority of liberal intellectuals were really sqeamish about extending liberties to the extreme right, they would have protested this new glorification of Lindbergh. If they were still concerned only with Hitlerism (instead of the more inclusive police state methods of which it was just one variety), they would have condemned the Post for giving publicity to the man who lent so much prestige to the Nazi movement in the thirties. That they did not (and this is not an isolated case) can only suggest that perhaps the great bulk of liberal intellectuals, as opposed to their most conservative opponents...
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