Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin cynic in the early thirties there also, with his little blonde mustache twisted into a habitual sneer. A junior high school general science teacher, no doubt. The Vagabond mused sympathetically upon this probably frustrated soul and his inner struggles. He had never wanted to teach general science to squeamish thirteen-year-old girls and still-juvenile boys. Vag was sure of that; nobody could possibly want such a job. But when it fell in his path, there hadn't been much for an indifferent, unemployed, distinctly mediocre college graduate to do but accept it. He hadn't meant...
...There is absolutely no reason," Bock emphasized, "for students to feel squeamish about donating blood...
...Americans who are not too squeamish to learn from the enemy, Author Earle quotes a passage from Mein Kampf that U.S. readers might do well to memorize: "The question of regaining Germany's power is not, perhaps, How can we manufacture arms?, but, How can we produce that spirit which enables a people to bear arms? Once this spirit dominates a people, the will finds a thousand ways, each of which ends with arms!" For those who could not find this spirit, or found it repellent, Americans in their homelier days posed the alternatives in plain English: Root...
...them have some background in Marxism, they have no faith in the masses of such a sort as to lead them to believe in the ideal of a free, classless society. At the same time, they are sometimes openly scornful of capitalists and capitalist ideas. They ... are not so squeamish as to insist that their words should coincide with their actions and aims...
Last week R returned to the calendar. To squeamish folk who believe the ancient adage of the inedibility of oysters in summer (R-less) months, it was a signal to start gulping them again. To oystermen, who indulge the superstition to conserve oysters through their spawning season, it was a signal that the 1940-41 oyster season was on-a season in which they saw a chance to make big money for the first time in nine years...