Word: blushed
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...first blush, then, the SUV war looks like a fight between two groups of elites--the overeducated vs. the overcompensated, the Whole Foods crowd vs. the Outback Steakhouse crowd, New York Times people vs. Wall Street Journal people. Keith Bradsher, a Times reporter, wrote High and Mighty, a book published in September that calls SUVs "the world's most dangerous vehicles." Recently columnist David Brooks attacked Bradsher in the Journal for his "broad generalizations about people's souls on the basis of what car they drive...
...deplored As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man? And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom...
Some varieties, like the Winesap and the Maiden Blush, are antique apples with long histories. Others have become popular in recent years, like the pinkish-orange Gala, which was created by horticulturists in New Zealand who blended Golden Delicious with Kidd's Orange Red, an apple that itself is a hybrid of the British Cox's Orange Pippin and a Red Delicious. Japanese breeders crossed a Red Delicious with an heirloom variety called Ralls Janet to create the superlarge, supersweet Fuji, which ranks fifth in sales among varieties grown...
Upon viewing several rows filled with young Korean-American women, Lee urged them to sign up for one-on-one lessons in “CPR and chest compression.” Lee’s raunchy brand of humor, which he said could make Margaret Cho blush, was one of the highlights of the evening, according to some audience members...
...really good for Republicans to hold their 2004 convention in New York City? It's hard to say. At first blush it seems a bit odd; the New York brand of Republicanism is a bit different from, say, the Tennessee or North Carolina brands. Despite our Republican governor and mayor, this is a state - not to mention a city - overflowing with pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-civil rights voters. Not, in other words, an obvious place to deliver scores of GOP faithful for an extended stay...