Word: swears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corps trainee who was yanked off his milk truck, told to run, then shot dead when he did; a four-year-old girl killed when a tank commander sprayed her home's windows with machine-gun fire; and a man shot down for "carrying a gun," though witnesses swear it was only a broomstick...
Somerville school children cross their hearts and swear that their teachers correct papers by tossing them down a staircase, picking them up in the order of their fall, and then marking them according to their bulk. Even if the summer issue of the Harvard Lampoon were graded by Somerville standards, it would surely fail. But no one grades the Lampoon, for during the past year or so (with one or two exceptions) its quality has been remarkably consistent: light in weight, with more gravity than levity...
With or without Russian aid, however, all Arab nations intend to pursue the battle against Israel. Almost without exception, their leaders reject Israeli peace terms, swear that they will neither negotiate with the Israelis nor recognize their existence. Last week, in the face of devastating defeat, the Arabs were quoting to each other an old saying by Mao Tse-tung: "Fight, fail, fight again, fail again, but fight on to final victory...
Even so, the great majority of Army men, who got the M-16 long before the Marines, swear by it. So do the Viet Cong. Indeed, Le Xuan Chuyen, a former North Vietnamese lieutenant colonel and veteran of 21 years of guerrilla warfare, calls the M-16 "an excellent weapon." Le Xuan, the highest-ranking Red defector to date, says the V.C. also have gripes about the M-16s they have captured. They find the M-16 ammunition almost impossible to procure...
...other cities where there is no competition in the morning or evening, the papers could simply settle down and enjoy their profits. Instead the Globe and the P-D choose to fight it out. And the citizens of St. Louis fight right along with them. "Some swear by the Globe," says former Mayor Raymond Tucker, now professor of urban affairs at Washington University, "and some swear by the Post-Dispatch." And some swear at them. "Unfair, reactionary, hip-shooting" are epithets commonly hurled at the Globe. "Sluggish, effete, unpatriotic" are some of the names the Post-Dispatch is called...