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Word: swear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rolling time capsule, Age of Aquarius stuff, very 1960s. So the lady sits down next to this dude in old Army fatigues, and after a few blocks she says to him. "We don't see many hippies around here any more." And he says to her, I swear, "Lady, at these fares. I'm not surprised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Manhattan: Reliving the '60s | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...Joyce yelled to let it go, and then it rolled on the line, I swear, for at least a foot and a half," Brown said later. "It was unbelievable...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: First-Inning Bunt Single Costs Brownie No-Hitter | 4/12/1978 | See Source »

...lots to gain. The treatment of Freed points up the main feature of this movie, its defusing of almost all controversial issues at the time with palpable, very nearly relentless innocence. This spell of innocence is not perfect. Tim McIntyre as Freed drinks and smokes (he doesn't swear though) and Chuck Berry is wonderfully crude, but these things are overshadowed by the innocence of the fans and performers who populate the film...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: The Way We Weren't | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...watch the icemen skate against B.U., Northeastern in the Beanpot, and last night against Cornell, and you swear to yourself that this team looks as much like the one that lost to B.C. twice, and Northeastern once as the zamboni resembles an Audi...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: 'Something in the Way We Lose' | 2/24/1978 | See Source »

...meaningful work, but here, as in all his other films, Russell's only evident meaning lies aching behind his zipper. "Was it too much for you?" Oliver Reed asks Alan Bates after they finish a wrestling match in the raw, the homosexual hints dripping off their bodies faster than swear. Then the line pops up again, this time after Reed has been rollicking in the snow with Glenda Jackson: "Was it too much for you," he asks her, as the irony subtly smashes our way. This is too much, period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Astronauts to the Executive Washroom | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

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