Word: blankly
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Allende's Popular Unity coalition claimed 50.8%. Actually, if void, blank and independent ballots had been included in the total count, the coalition's share of the vote would have amounted to 49.7%. Still, the figure was an impressive increase over the 36.3% Allende received in the 1970 presidential elections. The Chilean Communist Party, which is closely aligned with the Soviet Union, increased its vote only slightly-from 15.9% of the total last year to 17.3% this time. The big winner was Allende's Socialist Party, which stresses its independent Chilean character. The Socialists nearly doubled their...
Dressed up as American and Vietnamese combatants, about 40 VVAW members staged "search-and-destroy missions" and "prisoner interrogations" throughout the morning on the Plaza. Periodically, the "Americans" charged the subway station and yelling "Kill the Gooks!" fired their toy machine guns point-blank at people emerging from the station...
Alexander switched from plastic packaging to biodegradable cardboard containers for eggs, meats and produce. To promote the recycling of waste materials, he arranged for a local citizens' group to place bins for old newspapers in his parking lots and to collect the contents for processing into blank paper. In addition to posting the phosphate content of soaps and other cleansers, Alexander tagged those that are low in phosphates with "ecology preferred" stickers. "When you buy the products we've indicated are low in phosphates," reads a point-of-sale sign, "you help decrease the amount of phosphates that...
Later that night, while the Big M was doing a heap of paperwork, I was placed in a Sergeant's cruiser and we responded to a shooting. A woman had been shot point blank in the face by her husband. She didn't look too good (the husband didn't look too cool either; he was standing around waiting to be arrested, and he was). Since I was dispensable, the Sergeant volunteered me to accompany the woman to the hospital; so I climbed into the back of the ambulance with the technician and we did our best to comfort...
...hadn't been for the acrobatics of goalie Bruce Durno, Harvard would have lest by a lot more than one goal. Durno ended his excellent career by turning away 35 shots, many of them from point-blank range...