Word: squirms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...silly of being pinned down by my brothers. Their warm breath on my face was agonizing. It meant defeat and it meant facing the consequences for my name-calling or egg-throwing. Lately I've had the same fear. Cleaning my room and recycling paper is like trying to squirm from out of my brothers' grip. Because I feel their breath and it's steamy and uncomfortable...
...motives to murder Polk. It is possible they did not kill him. But they did attempt to frame the communists. Ineptly and tirelessly, the descendants of Socrates neglected to ask fundamental questions. Why, for example, would the reds silence an American journalist who not only made their enemies squirm but could also be used to report their side of the war? Under increasing pressure, the police eventually provided a scapegoat. A confession was tortured out of him; he was found guilty of complicity in Polk's death and given a life sentence. He was released in 1961, five years after...
There were few black faces on the big screen back in the 1940s, when young Morgan Freeman collected soda bottles to pay his way into the local movie matinee. And the one or two who did appear made the young moviegoer squirm. He did not object to their playing servants, jobs his own parents had occasionally held, but it bothered him that these celluloid domestics were presented as empty caricatures, devoid of human dignity. "I didn't know anybody who acted like that," recalls Freeman...