Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eldest child, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, 46, displayed so much moral earnestness that, in her youth, her brothers dubbed her "the Nun." Turning to politics, she was at first squeamish about trumpeting her maiden name and lost a 1986 congressional race in Maryland. But in 1994 she let it work its magic and became Lieutenant Governor. Holding such un-Kennedy-like stands as support for the death penalty, she is seen as a future candidate for Governor...
...person, Williamson is sweet of nature, mild of manner and decidedly nonviolent. "I'm too squeamish for horror," he says. "I can't handle all the blood." In fact, he really wants to be the next John Hughes, albeit for a far edgier generation than the one that peopled The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink. Williamson's calling card may have been an eye for artful carnage, but his staying power derives from his ear for the voice of the '90s teen, whom he describes as "a very self- aware, pop-culture-referenced individual who grew up next...
McAllister is on the mark in asserting that "the biggest obstacles to killing Saddam aren't moral or legal but practical." Americans who are squeamish about political assassinations may be surprised to learn that one advocate of tyrannicide was Abraham Lincoln, himself the victim of an assassin's bullet. Lincoln believed that when a people have suffered under a tyrant for a long time, all legal and peaceful means to oust him have been exhausted and prospects for his early departure are grim, then the people have a right to remove him by drastic means. McAllister is correct: this...
...adult with your dad and Act II is making a meal of your grandmother's ashes, then we're sticking around through intermission. KATHRYN HARRISON, author of the incest memoir The Kiss, read her latest confession at the ninth annual PEN/Faulkner dinner in Washington to a crowd of squeamish guests that included William Rehnquist and Amy Tan. In her piece, Harrison announced that she had first stuck her finger into the urn that contained her grandmother's brownish, bone-studded ashes, licked it and then decided to go back for a full, five-fingered snack. We hope they served...
...study said the vaccine was effective against both the A and B strains of last year's flu virus and showed no noticeable side effects. Prepared from weakened influenza viruses rather than killed viruses found in traditional flu shots, the vaccine may be available in 1999, good news for squeamish folks who fear the needles more than the virus...