Word: daunting
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...Series. Such achievements did not daunt the contradictions in his personality. Against the theoretical wisdom of his 1929 paean, Marriage and Morals, must be set the preposterous practice of his own love life-a comedy more apparent to the reader than to the author. He was a puritan possessed of, or by, a powerful sexual nature. He tells about his industrious masturbation-at 94, he should surely allow himself to forget what he was doing at 15-and of the first time he fell in love, presumably with someone other than himself. His unhappy choice was Alys Pearsall Smith...
...informal rejection of the BSEIU by the BGMA officers did not daunt Sullivan. He insisted (and still does) that a majority of the BGMA's members had signed his "authorization cards" and that the BGMA officers were keeping them from him. In the fall he put into high gear his campaign to become bargaining agent, at the same time the BGMA officers continued their search for another union...
...path when newspapers publicized the fact that he was charging $1 for parking. That left only one access road through the jointly owned property of two avowed anti-nudists, and last week this too was closed with an armed guard to bar the way. But nothing seemed to daunt the enthusiastic nudists, who continued arriving wave on wave. Some made their way around the southern promontory at low tide; others formed human chains down the dangerous cliffside paths. All kept their sneakers on, at least until they hit the beach...
...afford bargain-basement cops any more," says Oregon's Multnomah County (Portland) Sheriff Donald Clark. But bargain-basement cops are what many cities get as they compete for manpower with widely varying standards of pay, training and competence. Moreover, the country's swiftly changing laws daunt even bright cops, who now have to cope with Supreme Court decisions that sometimes baffle even learned justices...
Cynthia's first big assignment was enough to daunt the wiliest old pro: her orders were to get hold of the Italian naval code book. Within a few weeks of first meeting the shapely Betty Pack, Italy's naval attache, Admiral Alberto Lais, was so scuppered by her that he surrendered the code with hardly a murmur. Italian apologists maintain that Lais, who died in 1951, was actually so ungallant as to give his mistress a fake cipher book. Undeniably, however, British Intelligence thereafter proved uncannily adept at forestalling Italian fleet movements, notably in the March...