Word: swearing
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...other hand, by sly understatement, his chipper account poked fun at officious "bashi-bazouks" like the camp Kommandant, and a corporal whose mania for counting and recounting the prisoners prompted one inmate to swear: "After this war is over. I am going to buy a German soldier and keep him in the garden and count him six times a day." Concluded Plum: "I would say that a prison is all right for a visit, but I wouldn't live there if you gave it to me." Bertie Wooster could hardly have put it better after a night...
...children sang till suppertime and then climbed into their sleeping bags. On other days, the Painters and Conrads walked among the ponderosa pine and the aspen trees, past berries and pink dianthus and lupine and wild roses, yarrow and wild strawberry and kitten ears and vetch. Though most campers swear that the forest is a world of green-muffled silence, it is actually full of noise: the constant cry of gulls and other water birds, the chit-chatter of squirrels and chipmunks and the hum of honey bees in the warm sun, the distant buzz of a motorboat...
...colletage. Next morning the couple awakes on the floor of the elevator to see the servants peering solemnly through the bars. There is a frantic rustle of disarrayed satins; dignity teeters, then drops in the soup. Laughing wildly, the reunited lovers clump up the stairs to bed. They swear eternal constancy, but Bergman has taught his lessons well; for his audiences, the best-learned lesson in love is to smile at promises...
...Struck down a section of the Maryland constitution that requires prospective officeholders to swear their belief in God as a violation of the individual's right to religious freedom (see RELIGION...
...leaped to attention to be sworn in, then stopped the court in its tracks by refusing to take his oath on the New Testament. "I'm not bound by any faith,'' he said. Presiding Judge Moshe Landau conferred with the other two judges, permitted Eichmann to swear on thin...