Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unduly squeamish because some might say we are attempting appeasement? ... We could not buy Argentina's friendship through a $125 million credit, so why not try something truly friendly...
...salvage GI socks and underwear turned in by the heroes of the late conflict, embedding these in a plastic matrix and coating the whole with a thin coating of superior smooth plastic in much the same fashion as in the old Columbia victrola records. Now I'm not squeamish, and I have great faith in the miracles of modern science, so I'm not disturbed by the fundamental arrangement. (I am told by a friend from Adams House that Irene was utterly horrified when this was revealed to her.) But as a result of many years of violent...
...studied, and its attempt to have a single guitar carry the musical score (in imitation of The Third Man's zither) produces nondescript results. Yet, as his first directing effort, it shows promise for Novelist Brooks (The Brick Foxhole). Best scene: the condescending dictator and his friends turning squeamish as they watch Grant in a dress rehearsal of the brain operation...
...Songs treats this sudsy claptrap with considerable skill and restraint. It gives the least possible offense to squeamish moviegoers; as far as appearances go, the heroine might be suffering from nothing more serious than migraine. Admirers of Actress Sullavan's mannered, laryngitic style will see and hear plenty of her, though unmannered Actor Corey gives much the best performance in the picture. If the film does nothing else, it will probably drive many a woman to her doctor for a complete checkup...
...turn your stomach at the breakfast table." (An early slogan for the Times was: "Will Not Soil the Breakfast Table.") In the Times, bodies are never found "lying in a pool of blood," nor "badly decomposed" in the woods. The Times was net always so squeamish. Ochs once told an editor who complained that a certain story was too smutty for the Times to print: "When a tabloid prints it, that's smut. When the Times prints it, that's sociology...