Word: blushed
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...These programs have something in common besides the power of their titles to make BBC executives blush: they were all commissioned by the digital TV channel, BBC3. Set up in 2003 to cater to precisely the younger audiences that Byford says are so tricky to retain, BBC3 has scored several successes, including an exuberantly tasteless comedy show called Little Britain. Featuring such popular characters as an incoherent delinquent called Vicky Pollard and a pugnacious, latex-clad homosexual named Dafydd Thomas, who deludedly believes he is "the only gay in the village," Little Britain drew a mass following...
...will be all of our first choice if all else fails ;)” 14. FM: Snap! Well, what do you think about FM? 2011: “Makes me believe in all that is good about mankind.” 15. FM: You’re making me blush. Last question—what did you think of the First Chance Dance? 2011: “and to think some UT vols told me i’d never party again when i went off to school...
...Business is OK," she says with a blush of modesty, after reluctantly admitting she earns 10 times what she did as a farmer, and now lives comfortably in an airy loft above the shop...
...Though the country has had something of an economic boom of late, the blush is off the rose. Prices are rising and blackouts common. Extremist groups have gained power-last week an Islamic court in the tribal areas sentenced and executed four people for adultery. Towns in the northern provinces bordering Afghanistan are run by a Pakistani Taliban that has shut down barbershops, girls' schools and polio-vaccination programs. In Islamabad, students from the fundamentalist Jamia Hafsa seminary have occupied a children's library less than a mile from the Parliament building. Abdul Aziz, head of the Lal Masjid mosque...
...faithful are no ordinary sports fans. Passion for the team is more than just a hobby; it is an invisible brand that instills a collective social identity into denizens of the Northeast. At first blush, Northampton hipsters share little in common with Nantucket preps, but they both kneel at the alter of Big Papi...