Word: blows
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...bases in the country. That antinuclear posture has helped Kinnock unite his party, but he is gambling that it will not alienate mainstream voters and cost Labor the election, as it was largely responsible for doing in 1983. If a Labor government under Kinnock carries out that policy, the blow to the alliance would be greater than French President Charles de Gaulle's decision in 1966 to leave NATO's military organization...
Last week, in a move that dealt a serious blow to the financial-supermarket concept, Merrill Lynch announced that it was putting its comparatively unprofitable real estate division up for sale. Apparently, customers did not always think that a good place to buy a stock was necessarily a good place to buy a house...
...that they can be." He adds, "This hurry-up presummit summit is a source of great concern to me." William Hyland, editor of Foreign Affairs, thinks the Iceland meeting is "dangerous" because diplomats are "escalating their disagreements to their bosses, and if their bosses disagree, the whole thing could blow up. I'd say there is a 40% chance it will fall apart...
...raccoon coat to take her to Topsy, a local nightclub; he loved to hold her in his arms during the tango and foxtrot. On the second anniversary of their meeting, after she continued to turn down his proposals of marriage, the young swain wrote her, "When the winds blow and the rains fall and the sun shines through the clouds . . . he still resolves as he did then, that nothing so fine ever happened to him or anyone else as falling in love with Thee -- my dearest heart...
...sense of common tragedy and the exercise of generosity. Yet, as soon as a community develops, individual freedom begins to be restricted. The result is the perpetual American balancing act, which applies to disputes on AIDS, drug testing, abortion, school prayer, to any issue or condition that would blow off the national roof were there no continuing, deliberate compromise between personal liberty and citizenship...