Word: squirming
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Starting at Home. The Judge has added to his store of knowledge about human nature in these three years. He watched witnesses squirm before him, torn by loyalty to crooked friends, by the desire to save their own hides. He noticed a queer phenomenon: some turned wringing wet with sweat, others parched so that their skin peeled. He believes that all were relieved when they finally told the truth. Under the glass top of his desk he kept a Walter Scott couplet for all to read and ponder: Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice...
Halifax is a salt-rimed sailor's town, dependent on the sea for its livelihood, on war for boom prosperity. But Halifax also has a Calvinist moral attitude; Haligonians still squirm when historians recall that Queen Victoria's father flaunted his pretty mistress, Julie, in the face of Halifax society...
...Squirm. In Pittsburgh, local cootch dancers organized the Oriental Dancers of Pittsburgh, Inc., to fight for better wages...
...when a pretty poule (Mireille Balin) visits the Casbah, the whiff of outside air she brings is too strong for Pépé. But Duvivier never lets her intrusion sink his story into another formula triangle. The camera stays on Pépé, watches his mind squirm in its cage...
...over the place, he has other colorful peculiarities. He "would as soon cite Shakespeare or Gilbert and Sullivan as some legal savant" to prove his point in court; he likes to bully that specie of man named "lawyer"-to "prick their sensibilities, to bait them and make them squirm"; and, (strangest eccentricity of all), "the breath of scandal has never remotely touched...