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These new English speakers do not hesitate to inflect borrowed English words as if they owned them.
The 1960s American ban on Cuban cigars so devastated Fidel Castro that American policy-makers didn't hesitate, a decade later, to punish the flag-burning ayatollahs with a similar ban on Iranian caviar.
Rather did not return a phone call from the Times . By the way, journalists who don't return phone calls from the press are precisely the sorts who don't hesitate to manipulate content--it's all part of the belief that the rules they constantly apply to others don't apply to themselves.
The most bitter critics are those whom one must hesitate, in light of current knowledge, to call the Kennedy Mafia.
Already, it is becoming very difficult to deny-- all available evidence points to it--that the day is surely coming, withal, when there will remain, truly, no mere coincidences about which one cannot avoid a suspicion or shake off a conviction, when clearly everything will incontrovertibly support a thesis or conversely stand in direct contrast to it, and, overriding all this, there will as a result be not the slightest doubt in our minds about one inescapable conclusion, namely the dawning realization that, there being nothing more to say on the subject, as it were, we therefore will no longer hesitate but rather will necessarily feel compelled to state the obvious.