Word: swearing
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...suddenly taking off in popularity. On this baby, you ride low, spine against a backrest, legs raised to pedal. It does take some getting used to, though, because you depend more on your leg muscles, and the steering and balance can be a bit tricky at first. Recumbent fans swear these roadsters can eliminate every physical obstacle to cycling, from neck pain to sciatica. They're also easier to pedal, Dr. Mirkin explains, because they use the higher, more muscular section of your hamstrings, which is less susceptible to injury. One believer is Dave Glowacz, who raves, "It's like...
...Cooperative Baptists swear that the decision to hold their counter-meeting at Disney World was inadvertent, not a symbolic insult. Few believe them. "It was a Mickey Mouse move," cracks Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the SBC's premier teaching institution. "It was like children rebelling against their parents." In fact, the gesture is a reaction to the right-wing takeover of the Southern Baptist movement...
...sophomores vehemently deny their room always has a week-old plate of chicken wings from the dining hall as a floor display piece. As for the various articles of clothing strewn about, they swear they were about to clean them...
...there, naked. You were there, gawking open-mouthed. Gaping, like the Bad News Bears on the set of "Eyes Wide Shut." Staring, as if the nude bodies of your classmates were jiggling out a message from your ancestors. I swear: Many of you are messed up worse than little Elian. It's a good thing Harvard doesn't have too many nude drawing classes, since from your "found the peephole into the girls' locker room" look at Primal Scream it seems that a stationary naked person might give you an aneurysm...
...parents defused our sibling fights by enforcing some unusual ground rules at home. My siblings and I were told to treat the word hate like a forbidden swear word. We also couldn't tell one another to "shut up." Without access to this sort of incendiary language, fighting was less satisfying. And although no one ever insisted that I had to like my brother and sisters (yuck!), we were expected to be grudgingly loyal to one another. This was driven home to me the time my big sisters intervened in a problem I was having with a playmate by telling...