Word: swear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...above what it was during the days of the draft," and the evidence at Fort Jackson seems to back him up. The rates of courts-martial and AWOLs are down. I never talked to more soldiers who did less bitching. In fact, no one even seems to swear any more. I heard exactly one four-letter word. On a rifle range, a sergeant turned on a complainer and shouted, "That's tough shit, soldier!" The lieutenant in charge of the range looked shocked. He grinned at me and said, "Well, you can't change human nature." The incident...
...conspiracy to get me and Playboy." Describing Arnstein as "one of the best, brightest, most worthwhile women I've ever known," Hefner also insisted on his own total innocence of drug involvement: "I have never used cocaine or any hard drug or narcotic, and I am willing to swear to that under oath...
...swear From my eyelashes I shall weave you A kerchief With words sweeter than honey And kisses I shall write: Palestinian you were And so you will remain. -Mahmoud Darweesh
...Rand's work and her philosophy of Objectivism, which she describes as advocating "reason, individualism and capitalism." It rejects altruism and embraces, says Rand, "rational selfishness." As John Galt, the hero of Atlas Shrugged, puts it at the climax of a 57-page speech that explains Objectivism: "I swear-by my life and my love of it-that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." Indeed, the title of one of Rand's nonfiction books is The Virtue of Selfishness. Rand does not like to be compared...
...first few weeks of my freshman year was ask people where they thought I was from, because they would never guess right. I found that I could make people believe I was exactly like them--I adopted their mannerisms and even their way of speaking, so that people would swear to me that I was surely from White Plains, or Berkeley, or Washington, or Vermont...