Word: blew
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...that low a turnout, the Tories will get 39% of the vote, Labour 36%, and neither party will get a majority of seats in Parliament - an earthquake that could topple Blair. Other polls (and online betting sites) are much less alarming for Labour, but last week the government blew some whistles of its own to undecided voters, women in particular, when it announced $520 million to improve school lunches after the TV chef Jamie Oliver aired a riveting series about how much junk they now contain. The economy is still humming away and Labour will make this the centerpiece...
With both teams swiping at the puck, still hovering in the crease, the officials blew the play dead. The referees proceeded to the official scorer’s booth, where they studied the film for several moments before ruling that there was not conclusive evidence to allow the goal...
...probably more so. Rice refused to appoint Bolton to the job he wanted--as her deputy--and those who know her say she will not tolerate the kind of free-lancing Bolton was famous for when he worked for Powell. One of the few times the normally cool Rice blew her stack during the first term was when a U.S. official at the U.N. made a medium-size decision without clearing it first with the White House. Bolton, a top official predicts, won't be able to make a move without Rice's explicit...
...that his sister Kathleen--the third of the golden trio of Joe Jr., Jack and "Kick"--had been killed in a plane crash while flying with her married lover for a holiday on the Riviera. Joe Jr. had died toward the end of the war in another plane, which blew up over the English Channel. Jack fell into a period of morbidity. The Kennedy family concealed the truth about Kathleen's aristocratic lover. Kennedy ever after concealed the truth about his Addison's disease; if voters had known that Kennedy suffered from a debilitating illness, his future political career...
...wanted to put her on JV her first year,” Delaney-Smith said. “I let her take part in preseason, and she blew me away in the tryout. There was no way I couldn’t take...