Then came a couple of pubs, a housing estate in Colne, another pub, a supermarket in Leyland, more pubs, church halls, village halls, even more pubs, a care home in Pilling and blow me if several more pubs didn't sign up as well!
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"It was such a tremendous blow to me, " he said.
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You can imagine what a bitter blow it is to me that all my long struggle to win peace has failed.
When the memory returns, it's like a blow to the stomach that sometimes leaves me bent double.
It is terrified that weekend pilots like me will try LOP, botch it, and blow up the engine.
But the blow came when he announced that he had initiated two lawsuits against me.
Nevertheless, his remarkably good spirits led me to wonder whether he was taking meds to soften the blow.
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And just a couple of years ago, the saxophone player strapped his horn around my neck and showed me where to place my fingers on the keyboard and how to blow, and I did and I felt utterly transported.
"In a way I'm glad it's happened to me because I know full well I'm capable of dealing with each blow, whereas a lot of people wouldn't be, " he added.
One top Wall Street executive told me a few years ago how, during Spitzer's crusade against crooked securities research, a blow-by-blow account of a supposedly private meeting appeared in The Wall Street Journal the next day--ending when the then attorney general left the room.
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