Word: squeamish
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...turn your stomach at the breakfast table." (An early slogan for the Times was: "Will Not Soil the Breakfast Table.") In the Times, bodies are never found "lying in a pool of blood," nor "badly decomposed" in the woods. The Times was net always so squeamish. Ochs once told an editor who complained that a certain story was too smutty for the Times to print: "When a tabloid prints it, that's smut. When the Times prints it, that's sociology...
That the quality of the food was really inferior both as regards choice of foods and as regards preparation, and that this is not merely the protest of one spoiled or squeamish patient is best attested by the constant lines to the lavatory. And certainly the standard of the Houses at Harvard is not too high to be met by a hospital...
...matter wevver they knows or not?" queried a blood-stained London butcher. "If yer finds yer 'usband squeamish, don't tell 'im, that...
...Democrats and Communists. Hoederer, the Communist leader (Charles Boyer), believes that for tactical reasons the party should join in a coalition. To the party purists this is treason, and they install an idealistic young convert (John Dall) as Hoederer's secretary, with orders to kill him. While the squeamish secretary is funking the assignment, his wife (Joan Tetzel) falls in love with Hoederer and informs on her husband. The husband finally kills Hoederer in a spasm of jealousy...
...problem of arousing the voters' interest is a particularly difficult one at Harvard. Council labors are, for the most part, hardly of the type that catch the imagination; Councilmen and candidates for office have been understandably squeamish about making a lot of noise about issues or their own qualifications for office. It has been a pretty sober affair, as undergraduates who voted last Thursday--or who didn't take the trouble to vote--can testify...