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Conservatives are heartened, though a few winced at his boast that Republican ideas are carrying the day--in Mongolia.
Two young American students at a Jerusalem Judaic school winced when the Clinton entourage turned their backs on the Wall as they left (you're supposed to back away from it).
The conservative establishment winced when the Prussian Writers’ Academy chose as its president Heinrich Mann, the elder brother of Thomas Mann, a violent critic of the German bourgeoisie and supporter of the Communist Party.
"They had a good look at Tom and Nicole and then they shook their heads and kinda winced," reports the Star . "They took over the set and showed how it was really done."