Word: squirming
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...amendment without hell to pay. Now that it matters, they cannot continue to trumpet this extreme position without at least heck to pay. It will be an albatross around their necks. Already it is a pleasure to watch Rudolph Giuliani, a Republican candidate for mayor of New York City, squirm...
Brazil and Columbia have sizeable deposits of the stuff, but the largest supplies are in two other countries. One is the U.S.S.R. It doesn't take a foreign policy expert to squirm at the thought of being dependent on the Soviets for our energy supply...
They made homophobia the issue. I now make sexual harassment the issue; it was the issue which created the confrontation, and it is an issue which should not have been suppressed. Homophobia has been highlighted while truth was forced to squirm in the sidelight. The perpetrator of the sexual harassment has become a hero of the cause unjustly, and undeservingly...
...when Subramanian offhandedly speaks of her Harvard acceptance as "a pleasant surprise," that's when admissions officers squirm and struggle. A daughter of Indian immigrants who was raised in Niskayuna, New York, (pop. about 5000), Subramanian is the big fish for whom the lure of recruitment programs like pre-frosh weekend are intended. And it is her attitude that captures a sentiment more common among pre-frosh in April than in February...
...fashioned art lovers, a museum is a building that elevates the spirit and lowers the pulse rate. In this cathedral, the faithful speak in reverent whispers or stand silently before paintings, which demand leisure and concentration for the appreciation of their subtleties. Other visitors, less awestruck, may squirm through the solemnity, like a child dragooned to High Mass. Or find a seat in the vestibule and fall asleep...