Word: swear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does claim, however, that "thousands have improved their scores," based upon the results that students voluntarily submit. Word-of-mouth advertising comprises 80 per cent of Kaplan's business. But while some people swear by his preparation system, others swear...
...weekends, downtown Los Angeles' Broadway is a teeming mass of Hispanic shoppers. Record-store loudspeakers blare Mexican hits: Juro que Nunca Volveré (I Swear I'll Never Return), Mi Fracaso (My Downfall). The Orpheum Theater, where Al Jolson once sang in blackface, screens Spanish-language dubbings of anglo hits. An archipelago of taco and burrito carts dots the street. Stores and merchandise stands tout their wares: vestidos, tocadiscos, muebles (clothing, phonographs, furniture). Farther east, on Whittier Boulevard, young Hispanics express themselves with a unique form of Saturday night fever known as "low riding"-cruising in ornately decorated...
...gnarled, 89-year-old man with a face like Robert Frost's, Gordon MacLean of South Portland, Me., looks exactly like what he is, one of the country's foremost practitioners of an ancient and mysterious art that science sneers at and country people swear by. He is a dowser. As people all over the back hills of Vermont will tell you, dowsers can find water in the ground when almost no one else can-literally at the drop of a forked branch or the twist of a metal rod. No one knows how dowsing works, if indeed...
...subject never came up at the congress, of course, where delegates dutifully sang the hagiographic ditty, Comrade Tito, We Swear that We Will Not Deviate from Your Line. Nor did Tito give a hint that he was anything but eternal. His hair still a perky shade of red, and looking tanned and relaxed in a jaunty, Palm Beach-style cream-colored suit, Tito delivered an hour-long series of excerpts from a 92-page policy address that was remarkable for its globe-spanning comprehensiveness-plus, in certain respects, its blandness. He soberly warned of the dangers of a new world...
...Governor's turnabout amused his opponents, among them Attorney General Evelle Younger. He will take on Brown in November, having roundly defeated three other Republicans to win the G.O.P. nomination. Said Younger: "I swear he sounded just like Howard Jarvis...