Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such topics make most men squeamish, but Dole's candor is likely to help him. His decision to release a detailed nine-page set of his medical records last week could go a long way toward reassuring voters that at 72, he is still in robust health. The average man who lives to be that age can, according to actuarial tables, expect to live an additional 11 years and four months. Dole's health report shows him to be solidly above average for this stage of life. "It's remarkably unremarkable," says Dr. Mark Williams, 45, a geriatrician...
...third page contains a catalogue of the enemy soldiers' penises that were sent to the Egyptian Pharaoh in 1300 B.C.--and that's far from the worst item Zacks has dug up. Bestiality, severed and bloated genitalia, rape, child molestation and other delicacies figure prominently. If you're squeamish, avoid the description of the (unsuccessful) penis-enlarging lotion...
...second virtue of buying Mexican goods was also driven home with jarring force last year. Enriching our neighbors is surely a more civilized way of staunching illegal immigration than California's Proposition 187, which in its harshness made even a few supporters squeamish. The case for NAFTA has always focused on the long term: that freer trade would slowly boost prosperity on both sides of the border, notwithstanding acute growing pains; and that by making Mexicans less threatening neighbors, it would eventually mute the raw nativism that is surfacing in California and elsewhere. That case looks at least as strong...
Rumors spread in 1987 that the Black Album was kept from release because it was too raunchy and violent for radio (true) and the distributor was squeamish about its content (probably also true). But the real reason for holding the record back, Prince later told some of his friends, was that after finishing it he had a dream in which he experienced a religious vision. "It was like a born-again thing," recalls a close associate. "He felt this music was way too dark and said if he died, he didn't want this being the last thing representing...
...about family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility. We cannot be embarrassed out of our belief that two parents, married to each other, are better in most cases for children than one." Pshaw. Who would even attempt to embarrass anyone else out of such mild beliefs -- especially with that squeamish qualification, "in most cases...