Word: swear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing then, he never forgot the boy. Six years later, when he set up a clinic in Dublin, Dr. Collis looked Christy up. Experts decided that at 18 Christy could be taught to speak intelligibly, to walk a little and to use his hands-provided that he would swear off using his left foot. This versatile limb was helping to keep him a cripple. When younger, Christy had got around in a gocart; later he often traveled on his brother's shoulders...
Under the new plan, only students in the advanced ROTC group, which consists of juniors and seniors, will have to swear whether or not they had been affiliated with any subversive organization on the Attorney-Ceneral's list. Students in the basic group, consisting of freshmen and sophomores, will only be required to take a simple pledge of allegiance to the United States...
...basic" and "applied" science. Actually, most "pure" scientists have long been closely involved with practical applications of their studies, e.g., the H-bomb, radar, rocket propulsion. Indeed, when defending their research budgets to outsiders, they "almost universally point to the most outstanding practical applications [they] can single out, and swear that these could [never] have happened without the basic research of past years." Yet, despite all its useful byproducts, pure research stands apart. It is motivated not by the need for an answer to an immediate problem, said Seaborg, but by an "intellectual curiosity [which can] be rated with...
...Corballis will not point out any "special sweetheart," among her hundreds of "gorgeous boys." Proudly she tells of their conduct when the University exchanged the square, muddy brown trays for the new circular platters. Although complaining that the new trays were too shallow, the freshmen never uttered a swear word, she says, not even a "damn." "These boys are gentlemen through and through." Also, she guessed, "they must like the food for they never complain, and most of them return for more dessert; except the Rockefeller and Roosevelt type," she philosophized, "they must be satisfied, or else eat again afterwards...
...this reason, his teams and fellow coaches swear by him. As Ulen put it, "Bill can take the worst swimmer in the world, put his arm around him, talk to him, and convince him he should be in the Olympics...