Word: squirms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense as a teacher is that you can't make students think without making them squirm. I'm appalled at the amount of bad teaching at this institution in the sense of teachers who want to be popular and who are happy when their classes end with a bunch of smiling students...
This is not a massage parlor. This is a university. If you want to feel good at the end of a class, go get a rub down. If you want to think, you have to sweat and squirm and be made very uncomfortable in class...
...noticed as I've been on this tour thatwomen love this stuff. And in fact, when I read,there's a certain part of my program that mypublicists have told me not to read because itmakes women squirm. And so obviously, I'vecontinued to read it. But I've noticed that itmakes women squirm, but with pleasure, not becausethey're uncomfortable with it. I have--I knowthis, just from mail I get from the people thatbuy my books--a completely equally mixed audience,in terms of gender. There are people that say thatyou have to fall within a certain...
...week of U.N.-imposed economic sanctions did nothing to halt the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Serb forces have seized more than two- thirds of the territory and are bombarding the capital, Sarajevo. But the cutoff of trade, including oil, did make officials in the rump state of Yugoslavia squirm publicly...
Naturally, such comments make Jewish officials squirm. "To say the least, we don't like their ideology," says Alexander Bligh, the Prime Minister's adviser on Arab affairs. "We can live with it as long as it's not translated into violent acts." But the Galed attack has made the government more wary of the movement...