Word: swearing
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Dear Ann Landers: A man 12 years my junior talks of marriage, but his conversations all wind up with questions about my financial situation. [If] he is insincere ... why does he swear he worships the ground I walk on? Miss B.L.K...
...most of them are perversely delightful. Mme. Ing, the patrician Borgia who rules Amboland, ends every discussion with the despot's stern logic: "Mme. Ing has won that argument," she purrs. U.S. Army Lieutenant Thibodeaux brags that the service "taught me how to fight and how to swear"-and then demonstrates just how poorly he learned at least one of those lessons as he expectorates a stream of hilariously garbled obscenities. A Saigon prostitute, blinking and cooing like a neon China doll, whispers rote nothings into our hero's ear; he thinks she's talking politics...
Spectators at last night's women's basketball game against Providence will swear they saw not one, but two entirely different games in the course of the evening. The cagers left the court with a 77-43 loss, demoting their season record to 1-5 in one of the most remarkable flip-flop matches ever...
...emotionally self-righteous as it now appears, the New Right has not proved itself as stable as its leaders claim it is. The movements cannot simply swear off the Reagan administration in 1982 if the Republicans don't leap quickly enough to the starboard. They will need Reagan's aid and the GOP's cooperation to solidify their opposition to liberals...
...Amour heroes like Tell don't chew, swear, swill redeye or hang around dance halls, and they don't go with girls who do. Horseplay and gunplay are surprisingly infrequent. The Sacketts are courtly coffee drinkers who never draw first and fight only when their bedrock belief in the perfectability of mankind has been violated. They hardly rate...