Word: swearing
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...thump of dynamite blasting foxholes into the coral starts at dawn these days at Guantánamo Naval Base. All day newly arrived marines sweat and swear as they sandbag gun emplacements, communications lines and antitank positions...
MINISTER. Martha, I swear I don't know what's got into you. This is no different from Arizona, as far as I can see. Except the roads are worse. Where's the guidebook...
Burgess Hill is the tight little isle's loosest "freedom" (progressive) school. Shunning all rules, it allows boys and girls aged 7 to 17 to smoke, swear, pet, go barefoot, stay dirty-and study only if they care to. The school looks it: a crumbling Victorian mansion with peeling ochre paint and broken windows, its front pillars alternately scrawled with "Ban the Bomb" and "Keep the Bomb." Inside is a happy jumble of paintpots, squashed toffees, dirty clothes and unmade beds. Scribbled over the walls are drawings, poems and odd messages. Sample: "I've been sick...
Vyacheslav Molotov's future continued to pose the most fascinating puzzle in the Communist world. Not because Old Stone-bottom himself matters much, but because he has become a kind of code word, or swear word, in a veiled but fateful debate...
...this fast-paced game of musical buildings, a strict ritual is observed. "Do you swear on the Koran that you are only making 10% profit on the building you're selling me?" the prospective buyer asks. The outgoing landlord places his hand on the book, nods solemnly, then walks off with as much as double his original investment. Occasionally the victims strike back. One Lebanese sharpie who cleared $500,000 by selling a building to nine Saudis was later found beaten beyond recognition. But, said one local businessman in the spirit of his crafty Phoenician forebears: "If I could...