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So maybe we wince a little at the headlines and photographs from East Timor, and then, like our grandparents did when they read about Armenia, turn the page to read about Doris Duke--I mean, Caleigh Duff-Perelman.
However, as Jack Shafer noted in , there are plenty of other people out there who could meet and exceed their 1999 running total of $255 million and not even wince.
Why is it that the Dutch wince when first informed of the location of Zurich Airport?
Even when we scorn yet another neologism with -athon , or ridicule a new -gate (as in Irangate ), or wince at alcoholic becoming chocoholic , it has already made us concentrate on language and refreshed our interest by whetting our humor.
You have gone far geographically, and, I was going to say, careerwise, but as your mother is a strict grammarian I knew she would wince at that "wise" ending.