Word: swearing
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Charles Fournier, a former army sergeant and nursing-home administrator who was accustomed to bossing people around, used to swear he would kill himself before he'd let anyone put him in a nursing home. So he was almost as baffled as his wife was when, after two strokes, he chose last year to live in one. Even this hardened military man couldn't resist a place with 40 birds, 25 rabbits, 12 cats and four dogs living there, noisy kids at an on-site day-care facility and committee meetings to attend to help run the place...
...Bush Administration's State Department and for the past eight years as the Clinton Administration's special Middle East coordinator. It contains secrets that he and maybe one or two other people know, things like confidential Israeli and Palestinian negotiating positions, areas where they might concede, areas where they swear they won't. Occasionally he drafts handwritten memos in it to the Secretary of State or the President. In that binder are ideas that show the way to peace...
...fact, there are moments (as when Gore speaks... slowly... and... heavily.... to... grown... men... and... women... so... that... you'd... swear... he... was... trying... to... explain... Wittgenstein... to... three... year... olds) when you have the disconcerting thought that the vice president may come from Mars. With Sheppard's insight, we may imagine simply that Gore comes from Ottawa. It is a less dislocating thought. The Coneheads sought to offer the same reassurance when they explained that they came "from France...
...Pebble, nobody made a real run at Tiger, in part because he gave them little encouragement. He had no three-putts. And errant shots don't bother him as they once did. Yes, after a bad drive on 18 he hit the grandslam of swear words Saturday morning during children's hours, but later in the day, when he triple-bogeyed, he just chuckled. He then erased that mistake with three birdies. And he did it all on a course well known by every golf fan--one that sets a standard for championship play. The fairways were narrow. The rough...
...manage to edge out two boats piloted by the peers, despite getting caught around a buoy and running aground, again. At the end of the race we hadn't capsized, we hadn't come in dead last, and while my boss now knew that I could swear like a sailor, he hadn't fired...