Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dash had dealt Starr a big blow. His resignation helped seal Washington's posthearing verdict that Starr's performance would not change the dynamic in Congress against impeachment. Committee Republicans did expand their inquiry last week into the Kathleen Willey affair--the accusation by the former White House volunteer that the President groped her near the Oval Office. So this week and next their investigators want to depose in closed-door sessions Willey's attorney Daniel Gecker, Clinton's attorney Bob Bennett, Clinton confidant Bruce Lindsey and Democratic contributor Nathan Landow. But even as Hyde was pressing on, more rank...
...Heiress (1949). A once-bitten, twice-shy Olivia De Havilland as the target of Montgomery Clift?s advances -- couldn?t she tell from the mustache? William Wyler got a great turn from De Havilland and strikes a poignant blow for spinsters everywhere...
...strides later, I realized what I had just done. I had let my normally optimistic disposition go. I was awash in cynicism because of the bad weather. Here was some young kid, eager to come to the United States and interact with the locals, and what did I do? Blow him off. Great. Now he has the impression that Americans and Harvard students are rude and inconsiderate. If not, he at least thinks that...
...blow this persistent person off. They choose to ignore this response. However, rinse and repeat, as many times as desired, they just won't wash out. Unfortunately, unlike shampoo, clueless suitors seem to be a lot harder to get of your hair...
They've done it again. Religious zealots have struck yet another blow against equal rights for all Americans. Hawaii's constitution now guarantees the state legislature's right to treat gays and lesbians as second class citizens. For the most part, we may thank the Christian fundamentalists and the Mormons for the newly-ratified amendment...