Word: squirmish
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...pretentious that I'm watching this." And again he predicts how it will come out in the article. "Leo looks strangely uncomfortable as he sees himself," he says, mimicking what he fears I will write about him. "There's a certain detachment in him. He's squirmish when his scenes come on." It is kind of him to do my work...
Friday, January 14--The pancakes were great--for playing frisbee, that is--and the fried eggs were a bit on the squirmish side...
...continual squirmish over the budget lies the key to the session. The President, committed to an essentially negative program of holding the line, was able to capture the initiative and characterize the Democratic position as one of mere unimaginative opposition--greater spending no matter what the need. The election results were not a mandate for greater spending, but rather for greater leadership. Since the President appeared to give this, even if initially only in a negative direction, much of the Democratic appeal was undercut...
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