Word: squeamish
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...museum is not for the squeamish, however. After all, except for the fossilized skeletons, the animals were captured alive in the wild and then stuffed and preserved with arsenic. Many show signs of age. Most of the specimens are at least fifty years old. Davidson points out that some are "mounted like trophies--that really dates them. It's a different way of looking at animals...
...attorneys. After seven hours of deliberation, a jury of five men and seven women had acquitted her by reason of temporary insanity for what the law describes as the malicious wounding of her husband John Wayne Bobbitt. In the more familiar language that even the most squeamish have learned to say out loud since she wielded her knife last June, she cut off his penis. "Fifty years ago, Lorena Bobbitt would have been convicted without a shadow of a doubt," says Lawrence Friedman, a Stanford law professor. "They would not have listened to any argument that her deed was justified...
...price for this privilege is that we will come across opinions which we disagree with. Every now and then, something is bound to offend us. But we can't throw out two hundred years of Constitutional history every time an advertisement makes you a bit squeamish. There is no belief so repulsive, no opinion so damaging to society that freedom of speech should ever be abridged...
Unfortunately, Aideed will not willingly surrender himself. Thus, his capture requires force, a concept that makes Jimmy Carter and many aid workers in Somalia squeamish. The aid workers in particular have good reason; they have seen enough death and violence...
Rationing on a wide scale, however, will not be seriously considered as a solution to the health care crisis until Americans become less squeamish about making qualitative judgements that affect human life...