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I also wondered: What about those women, some of them pretty, bright, and articulate, who admirably recoiled from this clown when they discovered they were fodder for his Hollywood ambitions?
Of course, the evil tobacco bastards recoiled from Kessler's rules.
Wall Street initially recoiled at the idea of a settlement but then bid Big Tobacco's stocks up at nearly every mention of an impending deal.
Some recoiled from the sheer brutality of the violence (which also defaced Germany's image).
They recoiled at the specifics of Butler's plan, with Iraq Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz reportedly saying U.N. inspectors were up to their "old games and tricks."