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Word: swears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than matched by their Dartmouth counterparts. The Big Green legions will be there Saturday, all in green jackets with Dartmouth pennants tied to their car atennae, all getting incredibly drunk. I remember one guy who seemed to be near us every year next to Newell Boathouse, and I swear half of his party were too loaded to make it to the game...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Harvard-Dartmouth: No Love Lost | 10/25/1975 | See Source »

...swear on my mother, I always said it. I have never understood why the Americans have fallen in love with that interview. I haven't given any importance to the boutade [whim] he said about the cowboy. I thought it was cute, it was arrogant, it portrayed him. But the interview was bad because Kissinger is a very cold man, and he behaved coldly. I was disturbed by his way of receiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Interview Is a Love Story | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

Cantankerous friends of mine, bummed out by the "issues of the day," have invented their own. They've been to El Paso and know west Texas like the back of this month's Playmate, and they swear that they've seen the sand dune Neil Armstrong stepped out onto that historic day in July 1969. "Backdrops and mock-ups," they say. "No way anybody could ever get to the moon. It was all staged out there in Texas...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Short and Sweet | 10/16/1975 | See Source »

...know, I'm a gardener during the summer," McCurdy said," and two twins named Flora put the finishing touches on us. Something is just not right. I can't remember their names, though. I just swear when I see them...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Huskies Dodge Deluge, Crimson Harriers, 25-30 | 9/25/1975 | See Source »

Today, the Orange Order serves much the same purpose it did at its inception in 1795, when, threatened by Catholic peasants willing to undercut them in bids for land tenancy, Protestants united to terrorize and exclude them. The initiation oath for the Orange order still requires that members swear allegiance to the heirs to the Crown, "so long as they support the Protestant ascendancy." and each member must swear, "I am not, nor ever was a Roman Catholic or papist...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Britain, Orangeism: Pieces of the Ulster Puzzle | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

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