Word: squirm
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That's because campaigning in the state is surrounded by such a delicious coating of Americana. Candidates speechify in town squares as skeptical grandparents listen intently and clear-eyed children squirm. Farmers sip coffee in diners as would-be Presidents just happen to amble in. It's all square dancers and hay bales and long, straight roads through amber waves of grain...
...everyone is comfortable with this freewheeling baby feeding. Milk banks, which sell bottled breast milk, already make some people squirm; the idea of physically breast-feeding a child not your own evokes even deeper taboos. Rhonda Shaw, a sociologist who studies shared nursing in New Zealand, where the trend is also up, says many confuse "adult meanings of eroticism with breast feeding ... Sometimes people associate a woman breast-feeding another woman's baby with pedophilia." Even the pro-nursing group La Leche League has concerns about milk sharing because, in addition to helpful immunities and antibodies, viruses can be passed...
...annuity," says Michael Schulman, an accountant with Excelsior Senior Advisers in New York. With fewer years to live, you have higher monthly payments. An income annuity bought at age 75 or 80 might generate more monthly cash than you could get anywhere else. Your heirs might squirm. But you will sleep better knowing you have plenty of income and it will never...
...largest such pipeline, will supply power stations with about 110 million liters of recycled water a day from 2008-promise huge water savings. But while spraying such water on cotton crops or golf courses has widespread support, the notion of pouring it into a glass still makes many squirm...
...toward the U.S.--and whose supporters were, barely two years ago, fighting U.S. troops on his orders. "We're going to have to hold our noses when we do business with this guy," says a Western adviser to the Iraqi government. "And he's going to enjoy watching us squirm...