Word: swearing
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...that time Teacher Rebel's pupils, who had watched frozen in their seats, also started jumping. The teacher calmed them by getting them to pick up the quivering coals, then sent for help. School officials who came on the run found the disturb ance subsiding, but swear that lumps of coal were still trembling. Next day State Fire Marshal Charles Schwartz organized a full-dress investigation. Submitted to lie-detector tests, Teacher Rebel and her pupils got a clean bill of truth-telling health. Chemists in the state colleges closely analyzed the coal. They could find nothing...
...Bridgeboro, N.J., Joe was a mild young man who did not smoke, drink or swear. Last week, in describing how a dozen Japs thwarted his efforts to rescue them, Bargebuster Burk, without falling back on strong language, used strong words: "They were squealing and putting up a terrific fuss. There was nothing to do but eradicate them...
...have blue eyes and brown hair, are 5 ft. 9 in. tall, weigh 165 Ibs. and wear glasses. The chances are 100 to i against your wearing a beard, 10 to 1 against your having a mustache. Instead you shave clean every day, and you are more likely to swear than sing while you are doing it. You don't admit to a bay window-and you have no use for setting up exercises...
They do not regard membership in cooperatives as synonymous with "collectivism" or "socialism." To them, it is the voluntary "integration" of the individual with the community, something that might be called "nonisolated individualism" as contrasted with "rugged individualism." Waring & Teller believe in reading books, and they swear particularly by the prewar yearbooks of the Department of Agriculture, which were authored largely by the remarkably clear and persuasive Gove Hambidge. Book learning has enabled Waring & Teller to push family agriculture into many profitable bypaths...
Personally kind but professionally exacting, Chris ceaselessly pinpricks his "Beaver's Eaglets" into working harder. He does not hesitate to fire them for repeated blunders, is just as quick to spread praise on thick for jobs well done. His men swear by him, call him Chris, like the way he hobnobs with the greenest beginners in off-hours, buying drink for drink with them...