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Academic proponents of cumulative voting swear by such a system's mathematical elegance. When filling seven seats, even though blacks make up only 11% of Chilton's voters, if they "plump" all seven of their votes for one candidate, that person should almost inevitably be elected -- without any outright governmental action on behalf of a specific minority. Of course, the same academics swear the system isn't confusing. Chilton County Probate Judge Bobby Martin, who oversaw the 1992 commission elections, differs. He says dozens of voters penciled in more than seven votes: "There were so many mistakes, we almost...
...days--I swear, I really felt like that. My mother didn't know why, but my father did. And he'd say, "Get 'em next year...
...early days as a New York hardcore band. They put out a couple of records which you always find lying around record stores. They're interesting curiosities, but I never, ever think of buying one. It seems that they are now "out of print" and unavailable, though I could swear I saw "Pollywog Stew" in the bins at Newbury Comics just yesterday. Well, if you have always wanted a CD that compiles all of these early works, there is now one available on their own Grand Royal Records, aptly titled Some Old Bullshit. As my roommate explained...
...portrait of the interior life at a time when TV ads clog the stream of consciousness like shimmering dead fish. Long stretches where the laughs come hard are followed by sudden bloomings of comic rhapsody. This wayward frolic is a bit like Oscar's car. Sometimes you could swear it was stone dead -- until it starts up and runs right over...
...decided when we elected him that the future of our country was more important than the history of his marital woes. Nonetheless, the media has dog-piled on the recent rumors of philandering, justifying its behavior like pubescent students drooling over Playboy: "It has really good articles, I swear...