Word: squeamish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Establishment--Nixon because he felt excluded from it, Kennedy because he felt above it. Most of all they were united by their ambition. For both, success wasn't everything, it was the only thing. They both valued opposition research before it was fashionable and were not at all squeamish about using money or dirty tricks to win votes. Both had a soft spot for Senator Joseph McCarthy. Both were wary of intellectuals and privately looked down on liberals as namby-pamby hypocrites...
Such topics make many men squeamish, but Dole's candor is likely to help him. Last year he released a detailed nine-page summary of his medical records that showed him in robust health. Whenever he talks about prostate cancer, Dole urges men to have routine PSA tests. He has even made his own results public...
Were the men of Battalion 101 cowed or coerced into taking part? No, insists Goldhagen. One of the battalion's commanders, Trapp by name, offered to excuse the squeamish from killing duty. Only a handful of guards took up the offer. Far from hating their work, the men of Battalion 101 even took pictures of the roundup, which they proudly mailed to wives or girlfriends, who would not have been too surprised by evidence of such brutality. Germany, Goldhagen writes, was "saturated" with prison camps where Jewish inmates were in essence worked to death under conditions scarcely better than those...
...Come into this race if you want, but you are not going to take this party back to the days of Rockefeller Republicanism, because we aren't going to let you.'" He calls Dole and Gramm "leap-year conservatives" who shuttle to the right every four years but are squeamish moderates at heart. So this is the Buchanan Dilemma: Will red-meat conservatives who love Pat continue to support him right through the convention, even at the risk of helping re-elect a President they revile; or will they make a pragmatic decision to fall back and support the candidate...
...Seven" is not for the squeamish, but if you feel up to it, you owe it to yourself to see it. If you are repulsed by what Quentin Tarantino does, beware; "Seven" makes "Resevoir Dogs" look like "101 Dalmations." This movie is in an almost-new realm of brutality, and gets there not by showing needles slammed through breastbones, as Tarantino is wont to do, but rather by showing the aftermath, giving description and letting you imagine things that are infinitely worse...