Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squeamish . . ." began the arch-Republican New York Sun in a front-page editorial one day last week. "It is convention, not the Constitution . . . which forbids open comment on the possibility that a President may be succeeded by his Vice President. . . . Six Presidents . . . have died in office. . . ." By this week the rabidly anti-Roosevelt New York Daily News, which is seldom squeamish about anything, was bravely facing the facts that Tom Dewey is 42 and Franklin Roosevelt is 62. (If either were to die in office, the News added, then John Bricker is obviously a fitter successor than Harry Truman...
...Killer. The Germans put Darnand in power. Late last December, old Marshal Pétain first resisted, then gave in to a Nazi demand that he revamp his government, throw out many of his closest advisers, replace them with stronger men who would not be squeamish about suppressing underground resistance. One of the new appointees was Joseph Darnand, a former carpenter who received full power over French police, gendarmerie, secret service, militia, and the private armies of ultra-collaborationists like Marcel Déat and Jacques Doriot. Also, in the event of Puppet Pierre Laval's absence (which...
When newspapers seize upon each insignificant or minor victory to belch blatant, optimistic headlines and then, conversely, relegate our own losses to squeamish type or the back pages, it is no wonder that we are overoptimistic. When Washington luminaries drop intangible statements or "in-the-know" hints about our military successes, but on the other hand hush our defeats ... it can plainly be seen that the burden of guilt rests squarely on the politicians' and publishers' shoulders. That is the main cause of this subconscious letdown in war production...
However, this nice dainty-squeamish fashion...
...give my blood. I'm too squeamish about the pain," is a common rejoinder used by Harvard undergraduates when confronted by Blood Donor Service canvassers who are working with the Red Cross to help fulfill the Army's latest urgent request for 3,000,000 pints of blood...