Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Muslims and Palestinians that we were as tough and mean as they were," a young member of Gemayel's Phalange said at the time. "I once studied to be a doctor, but I had to drop out of medical school after two years because I was too squeamish for vivisection. Now, after what I have done to Muslims and Palestinians...
...soul would smooth and polish criminals. Under what conditions? Inside locked catacombs, filled to overflowing with inmates wrenched from their families for years, all overseen by men with searchlights and rifles. The contradiction was ignored for 200 years, partly out of earnestness and hope, but eventually because of a squeamish hypocrisy, a refusal to admit that imprisonment is any society's darkest chore...
BLOODSUCKERS FROM FRANCE "If there's anything in the world I hate, it's leeches-filthy little devils!" Humphrey Bogart growled in The African Queen. He had just climbed out of a river, covered with the little suckers. Doctors tend to be less squeamish. But even for them leeches have long been associated with archaic medical practices, like bloodletting to cure everything from gout to mental illness. Lately, however, the unlovable little creatures have been having a minor revival. At New York's Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center doctors are using them effectively to help save reattached...
...through necromancy or something even more unfathomable, has been given nine lives. Such Draculatic positions, however, are rare. Cats themselves often seem instinctively to regard fear or hatred in people as a signal to antagonize visitors. Many owners report that their pets will purposely force their unwanted attentions on squeamish guests...
...murderer, a dope smuggler, a pimp, and only several months older than when we first meet him. We witness with him the brutality, corruption, drug abuse, homosexuality, squalor and general degradation that is his class's lot. Stay away from this film if you are the least bit squeamish; there is an unending stream of unsettling images that give the movie the appearance of a bad acid trip. Why go see a film like this when you can go see "All The Marbles" which is about lady wrestlers? Why go to college...