She said she hesitated to retrieve her medal because she didn't feel as though she had earned it.

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Hu favored the provocative picture, but at the last moment she hesitated.

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She hesitated, took it from me, and dabbed at her nostrils.

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She hesitated and looked at Jamie.

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Yet she hesitated to complain.

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She explained Thursday she put the brakes on -- prompting her child's panic -- because she was fumbling for the headlights in the darkness, and because she hesitated, wondering if the family was going to make it out or whether she and Gulick should turn around.

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Weaver, 63, never hesitated about doing the role: "I didn't, " she says laughing over coffee at a midtown cafe.

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Desmond hesitated, asking his then girlfriend, and now wife of 24 years, what she thought.

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