Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guard against the dangers of exploitation and manipulation; nor is there federal financing to provide research guidelines. The state and local laws that do exist-many of them outdated-have sprouted into thickets of illogicality and contradiction. About all they have in common are moralizing judgments and a squeamish avoidance of controversial details. "It's a legal, moral and social nightmare," says Doris J. Freed, head of the American Bar Association's family-law section committee on research. "It's going to take years of debate, legislation, trial and error to figure out how to deal with...
...life of a John Belushi with the toughness with which a seasoned political writer will look at Richard Nixon. Perhaps because it only serves to show how human the stars are, how frail they are like the rest of us, this kind of toughness seems unwelcome in our sometimes squeamish culture. This was made clear by the howls of outrage from the pundits and letter-writers that greeted the portions of Woodward's Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi that were printed several months ago in newspapers around the country...
...example Peretz says he thinks that American forest in Grenads were deployed "correctly and jointly." He adds that he fools the same about the labels U. S. action there "squeamish," because American troops have been unable to complete the "mission" he sees there. There have been, he says, "dishonest rhetorical demands from some people in Congress and the State Department...
Though most Jewish leaders would not support the disruptive tactics of the JDL, many Jews are too squeamish about Israel to consider working with many Black groups. Most of the major Jewish groups pulled out of the March on Washington last August because of the participation of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic organizations. If they had not ultimately participated in the March, there would have been a deep break in Jewish-Black relations, especially since Jews were among the strongest supporters of the original March...
...military intervention is no game for the squeamish. If Democrats are scared to take a stand against interventionism in Central America, then they should give Reagan whatever he wants and let him accept the consequences. "Compromises" just prolong the violence, raising the death toll and possibly leaving a mess for a Democratic president to clean up. Sooner or later, someone has to take the heat for pulling out of E1 Salvador and Nicaragua, and Democrats should have learned by now that decisions like this cannot be postponed forever...