Word: swear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanted it--he would have seen that the witnesses we brought forth spoke right to the point of Herbert's charges. Has he seen the transcript? Or did he simply take Herbert's word for what was in the show? Where is one single witness who heard me swear to get any kind of revenge for not being able to write a book with Herbert? Where is one single person interviewed on our show who says they were "forced to make their statements...
...exaggeration in the statement that during these years the fourth floor of the IAB became a haven for weekend-knitters and others who sought the comforts of lightly soothing entertainment. All of the "ugly" elements of "professionalism" were absent; the shoving, crowded masses of basketball fans who spit, scream, swear, and elbow their team on to victory rarely climbed the four flights of stairs more than once...
...here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day. I am sure old Andy could give me some good advice and probably teach me some good swear words to use on Molotov and De Gaulle. And I am sure old Grover Cleveland could tell me some choice remarks to make to some political leaders. So I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures...
...Israeli army has become a substitute for Jewish ideals," says Kenan. "No longer do Jews swear by their intellectuals, by their rebels or their revolutionaries, but by their army and their soldiers. They do not want to be martyrs. They want to be an efficient people." Thus, in one scene of the revue a housewife chortles: "Yesterday I noticed that my maid doesn't dust the table properly. So I called in the army. Now the army keeps things in order at home. It's a real delight to see how they rub, like well-oiled machines...
...melodic world of Appalachian Spring, though the piece is far from simple to play. "Ai-yai-yai-yai-yai! Copland cried out repeatedly at the recording session as he missed one or another of his own notes. A few feet away, Shaffer smiled sweetly back, having nothing to swear about, since she misses a note about as often as the sun fails to come...