Word: swearing
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...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...
...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...
...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...