Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...organize" the fields on their terms i.e., a lower hourly wage; no restriction on the use of condemned sprays; reinstitution of the slave-labor contractor system (shades of the '30's!); a medical plan that neatly excludes seasonal workers! Those great humanitarians of the Teamsters' Western Conference aren't squeamish about growers using a derivative of nerve gas. Why should they be -- the Teamsters' well-paid "negotiators" will never have to work in those deadly fields...
...three town ladies with pretensions to virtue, the Lady Fidget of Christina Pickles comes off best, though more vocal modulation would help. As her sidekicks Mrs. Dainty Fidget and Mrs. Squeamish, Grayce Grant and Joan Pape provide their quota of amusement. Curt Dawson and Ronald Frazier (who likes to smoke a long clay pipe) are a trifle bland as Harcourt and Dorilant, two gallants who envy Horner's success. Rex Everhart, as Sir Jasper, is foolish enough but lacks class, and should be told that the game is blindman's-buff, not blindman's-bluff. David Rounds, with beauty spots...
...trial by the Inquisition; there he performs Don Quixote as a charade for the amusement and instruction of his fellow prisoners. Peter O'Toole acts both Cervantes and Quixote about as well as Wasserman has written them, although to his credit, he looks a little skeptical, even squeamish...
...President offering to make the premier a Harvard benefit. But the idea of the University affiliating itself with a business venture concerning drugs at Harvard was a flop at Bok's office; and Phillips Brooks House, the Alumni Association, and the Crimson, which also received offers were similarly squeamish...
...game. Moscow's agents may be especially aggressive, but Russian espionage has a strong defensive streak, linked to a conviction that half the world is against the Soviet Union ?a conviction that began with the never-forgotten Western attempts to crush the" Revolution. The West is usually more squeamish about espionage than Russia or other Communist countries. David Cornwell. the Briton who writes realistic spy fiction under the pen name John le Carre (The Spy Who Came In From the Cold), once observed that the West does not believe in "eating people" and yet is forced to defend this...