Word: squeamish
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...example Peretz says he thinks that American forest in Grenads were deployed "correctly and jointly." He adds that he fools the same about the labels U. S. action there "squeamish," because American troops have been unable to complete the "mission" he sees there. There have been, he says, "dishonest rhetorical demands from some people in Congress and the State Department...
...military intervention is no game for the squeamish. If Democrats are scared to take a stand against interventionism in Central America, then they should give Reagan whatever he wants and let him accept the consequences. "Compromises" just prolong the violence, raising the death toll and possibly leaving a mess for a Democratic president to clean up. Sooner or later, someone has to take the heat for pulling out of E1 Salvador and Nicaragua, and Democrats should have learned by now that decisions like this cannot be postponed forever...
...Muslims and Palestinians that we were as tough and mean as they were," a young member of Gemayel's Phalange said at the time. "I once studied to be a doctor, but I had to drop out of medical school after two years because I was too squeamish for vivisection. Now, after what I have done to Muslims and Palestinians...
...soul would smooth and polish criminals. Under what conditions? Inside locked catacombs, filled to overflowing with inmates wrenched from their families for years, all overseen by men with searchlights and rifles. The contradiction was ignored for 200 years, partly out of earnestness and hope, but eventually because of a squeamish hypocrisy, a refusal to admit that imprisonment is any society's darkest chore...
BLOODSUCKERS FROM FRANCE "If there's anything in the world I hate, it's leeches-filthy little devils!" Humphrey Bogart growled in The African Queen. He had just climbed out of a river, covered with the little suckers. Doctors tend to be less squeamish. But even for them leeches have long been associated with archaic medical practices, like bloodletting to cure everything from gout to mental illness. Lately, however, the unlovable little creatures have been having a minor revival. At New York's Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center doctors are using them effectively to help save reattached...