Word: swearing
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Elsewhere things just get downright weird, mostly in a good way. I swear that “Hoodie” is a bald-faced “Hey Ya” ripoff, and yes it’s a little lame, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be dancing in spite of yourself...
...citizens swear to "bear true faith and allegiance" to the Constitution, pledging loyalty to a document written by men who could hardly have imagined a pluralistic democracy of this many people practicing this many faiths and speaking this many languages. The framers wondered whether Americans had enough in common to form a united nation at all--and they were far more homogeneous than we are, and there were only about 4 million of them. It took 100 years to get to 50 million. We reached 100 million in 1915, when the largest segment of the foreign-born population came from...
...thought - pretty much the only thought - that can sustain you throughout a very long naturalization ceremony, most of which is spent waiting. All of which comes after a very long naturalization application process, most of which is also spent waiting - punctuated by a brief moment of excitement when you swear you have not engaged in prostitution, Communist party membership or genocide. That...
GORDON RAMSAY'S F WORD BBC AMERICA, SUNDAYS, 9 P.M. E.T. Turns out Ramsay knows howto do something besides swear. The bad-boy Brit best known for filleting aspiring chefs on Hell's Kitchen reveals his reserved(ish) side, showing off his home kitchen and chatting up celebs between rounds of chewing out cooks at his restaurant. (I didn't say he forgot how to swear.) F Word (stands for food) is enjoyable less for cooking tips than for Ramsay's political incorrectness about, say, foie gras, the buttery liver produced by force-feeding ducks and geese. "Some people...
...dead when I got here. I swear...