Word: blanch
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...carnage. But the only lie in this horrendous scenario is the word plane. Substitute car, and that is the annual swath in the E.U. - 40,000 people dead, another 1.7 million injured, with a little help from trucks, bicycles, motorbikes and errant pedestrians. Numbers to make a bin Laden blanch...
...while the passage through Malaysia may be smooth for both sides, once the refugees arrive in Indonesia, they face a rougher ride. Even the most desperate gambler would blanch at the odds on surviving the final, crucial journey to Australia: some 4,500 refugees have landed in Australia in the past two years. But during the same period almost 800 have been officially classified as lost at sea, and some think that may be a serious underestimate. To get a sense of the risk, listen to the Middle-Eastern businessman who Jacky says is his boss, the man who heads...
...action (such as a fine that looks tough but really represents 1% of Bill Gates' net worth). The 19 states also bringing suit might last a little longer, and they might force some serious cash out of Microsoft's coffers. But even the most rabid State Attorney General will blanch at the idea of going back into court, especially with such a legal jumble of a ruling (would we have to have a rerun of the whole trial, or just the remedy phase? Looks like it's up to Jackson's successor to decide...
...brother and I were holy terrors - although my sense is that we were actually pretty well behaved. No, it was mostly the inherent problem of long-distance train travel for people other than kids or crazy romantics: too slow, confining and expensive compared with the alternatives. My parents still blanch visibly whenever the trip comes...
...regular guy, in other words, Batali can get pretty fussy. And he has a rather extravagant sense of the role cooking can play in our lives. In Holiday Food, he talks of his family's joy at coming together to chop and blanch and bake and consume. When he was a kid, he says, "any meals served at our house were mapped out at least a month in advance." To many home cooks who can barely heat up a pizza after a long day, Batali's heavenly kitchen may sound like hell...