Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister Whitehouse gave the No. 3 president an "out," explained that for him to remain in office would be contrary to "The Treaty of 1923." What the treaty.is all about was comparatively immaterial.* The No. 3 president, who had not scrupled to ignore the Guatemalan constitution, was presumably not squeamish about scraps of paper. He took 24 hours to think over the impression made on him by Minister Whitehouse, then resigned...
...witness a mass-beating went Chicago Daily News's by no means squeamish Correspondent Negley Parson. He noted that the first Gandhites to appear were ambulance men, stretcher bearers with red crosses on their arms. Next came the demonstrators for Independence, thousands of Hindus, scores of Sikhs. Then the police charged. All the Hindus seemed frightened-as well they might, being completely unarmed, knowing they would be beaten blue and blacker by police lathi (sticks)-but only a handful of the Hindus broke and ran, while not a Sikh stirred. Women, whom the police were ordered not to strike...
...Backbone of the Fleet." The gentlest of swells and a light air from the west made it a perfect review morning, far happier than the morning in 1927 when Calvin Coolidge was first squeamish and had to sit down, then frankly seasick and had to lie prostrate below while the Fleet roared salutes for his momentarily unmanned office. President Hoover stood under the eight-inch guns of the Salt Lake City-10,000 tons, last crisp word in U. S. cruisers-and peered closely through binoculars at the trim masses of war machinery which soon came plowing past. From...
...Loners, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover-), poet, essayist; at Nice; of tuberculosis. Red-bearded son of a Derbyshire collier, he was famed for his sincerity, psychological subtlety. A champion of free speech, sexual candor, in Lady Chatterley's Lover he precipitated the wrath of squeamish critics...