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The WP , historically very skittish in its treatment of race, doesn't complicate the story with the inconvenient but true observation that since most whites know better than to use the N-word epithet, and since it has become a common phrase of salutation and even endearment among blacks, a high proportion of its current usage is in fact as a synonym for "black person."
Why have America's Arab allies from Operation Desert Storm been so skittish about a sequel?
2 The Spiritual Thing . Candidate Jack Kennedy reassured the nation, skittish about a Catholic in the White House, when he stated, "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute."
With last fall's surprising collapse of the Asian economies, Western investors have grown skittish about all "emerging markets."
But when it comes to unilateral intervention, Hoffmann is skittish.