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Eventually, Dr. Spiegel put the volunteer into another trance and asked him what the real truth was. He stuck by the story. Then McGee upped the pressure by saying that he had witnesses who would swear that the subject had been in another city on the weekend he was supposed to have been told about the plot. "That's an absolute lie!" he shouted with conviction. "That's the action of Harris and his group. That man is a demon...
...respiratory system. McCurdy reserved his choicest comments for them. "You know," he once stated, "I'm a gardener during the summer, and two twins named Flora just put the finishing touches on us." Other well-aimed barbs have included the following: "Something is just not right. I just swear when I see them. Damn their souls. If we had some of that weed spray, I would have sprayed it on them." Knowing Bill McCurdy, he probably would have...
...Anglo-Saxon swear words no longer evoke their original imagery or symbolism. Avatar tries to show by parody the hypocrisy of people who commonly speak these words, but refuse to allow them in print. I find most of Avataramusing, especially the classified ads, because they are so outrageous...
HENRIK: You always were a good peasant, Bert. Direct. But an adaption? As I sat there, backstage, listening to his words and repeating my words softly for my own ears, I felt as though my body was being desecrated. Once I looked down and I swear my legs ended at the knees. Oh McBain, vile college lad, why did you poke about in the Doctor's speeches and spoil all the careful development of the younger-generation-knocking-on-the-door theme? There was no method to your wretched emmendations...
Students and teachers who already swear by Arthur Frommer's penny-pinching guidebook Europe on $5 a Day will escape most of the taxes, as will tourists who visit kinfolk in the old country. Though details have not yet been worked out completely, the tax for average daily expenditures above $10 may come to a flat 20%, or it may go as high as 40% for everything over...