Word: swearing
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...points. But nobody is disappointed Friday --at least not in Section 80. The guy with the bottle stayed awake most of the game, not dissolving into dreams of his college ref days until midway through the fourth quarter--when it's all wrapped up. The brothers from Roslindale only swear at the refs. And the kid with the ankle weights stops smiling and starts messing up his hair...
...TIME, The Weekly News-Magazine." His salary was $40 a week. On the first day of publication in February 1923, Larsen wrote with euphoria and some apprehension to his father: "I am really afraid to go on record as saying TIME has arrived, but the newsboys swear it has and it's their bread and butter." Larsen hired three debutante friends to help him mail the first issues; with amiable incompetence they sent three copies of the magazine to some subscribers and none to many others. For a time there was no desk space for Larsen in the magazine...
...RATING five years ago meant a couple of swear words (but not fuck), a first love (but no sex), and a small brawl (with some blood spilled, but no guts). These days, PGs are about teenagers who do what adults do in Rs, but not on screen. So we get heavy titillation instead of heavy sex, and scuffles suggesting murders instead of up-front violence...
...said that he would testify against Jordan only "if they [the Federal Government] give us the right situation" and in fact had told two deputies of Attorney General Civiletti: "I am not going to testify unless I have immunity." To TIME, he added: "Sure I have motives, but I swear not one thing I have told you is a lie." Whether Johnny C. will appear also is questionable; Rubell says he is hiding out in Los Angeles "because he has no money to pay legal fees...
...Ayatullah, a title that is earned, more or less, by developing a following and gradually gaining the recognition of one's superiors. Khomeini's first significant political victory came in November 1962, after the Shah's government decided that a witness in court could henceforth swear by the "divine book" rather than the Koran. The new Ayatullah led the clergy in a general strike, and the government backed down...