Word: squeamish
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...regretted the abrupt dismissal of Hangman Maciejewski last week. They set up his reputation for conscientious professional conduct against the announcement of the Ministry of Justice that he had been proved to spend his leisure time "in drinking immoderately . . . contracting many bad debts . . . [and] generally leading a dissolute life." Squeamish Poles rejoiced at a further official announcement that the permanent gallows which now stand in the yards of all State prisons will be removed "as offensive to public opinion." Hereafter a special, temporary gallows will be erected for each neck-snapping or strangulation...
...autumn. Mayor Thompson helped, too. Mrs. McCormick let them help. She learned party regularity long ago from her father, the late, sapient Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio. And the law of party regularity is the law of the jungle: when the pack can help you hunt, do not be squeamish about the pack...
...Chicago Tribune, not squeamish, carried an advertising sketch of a "tweaker." Superficially this instrument resembles a pair of scissors between the points and handles of which four flexible strands are strung and intertwined in curious fashion...
Myra became a beautiful young woman, short, plump, like a dove in repose, in action very erect, vital, challenging. Her spirit and swift wit were of a sort that old John Driscoll could understand, "racy, and none too squeamish." He was probably proud of her the snowy night she left his house, penniless, after two years of intense, secret waiting, to marry the man whom she loved and he did not. He was certainly proud of her when, after willing his house to pale-handed nuns, founding a women's refuge" in Chicago and providing that Myra could always...
...clawed feet. Many of these creatures were vegetarians and some who grew to 18-and 20-foot lengths developed rounded bills, like a giant duck's, to fill their monstrous wrinkled paunches. Certain species, having laid in arsenals of teeth, were meateaters and not in the least squeamish about devouring their peaceful relatives. In time, one sensible clan specialized in defense, going always on all fours, with armor plate on a humpy back and a flange of skull spread back fanwise to protect the neck. On the forehead grew three horns; the upper lip hardened and hooked downward...