Word: swears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon's world has shrunk almost to himself, his family and a handful of aides. Cabinet officers and agency heads are allowed in when business demands entry. But there is no camaraderie. In the old days somebody like John Connally could roar and swear at the enemies and tell a few stories to perk up the President. Connally has his own problems now. There was no meeting with the congressional leadership last week. A session with the economic advisers was postponed, then canceled. The bulletin board on which the President's and Mrs. Nixon's schedules...
John Lincoln Wright and the Sourmash Boys are about the best band on the local bar circuit these days. They're mostly from Somerville but you'd swear after listening to them that they've gotten lost on a road trip between Rocky Mount, N.C., and Knoxville, Tenn., and somehow strayed up to Boston. They play exclusively country stuff, ranging from Hank Williams laments to Earl Scruggs bluegrass, and start the weekend shift at King's Thursday night. John Lincoln has almost perfected his twang and his fiddler and pedal steel guitarist are especially good. Hard to dance...
Some arthritis victims swear that the foul-smelling pills have relieved their pains quickly. They should; ginseng pills, taken as directed, give users a larger dose of phenylbutazone than is normally prescribed. Even a normal dose can have a serious side effect: from one to ten out of every 1,000 people who take phenylbutazone come down with agranulocytosis. The disease can be lethal. Four of the five persons hospitalized thus far for ginseng-related agranulocytosis (three in San Francisco and one in Minneapolis) came close to death; another San Franciscan died...
...denounced Nixon by contrasting his 1960 quotation commending the good language used by Eisenhower to Nixon's present language in the transcripts of the Watergate tapes [May 20]. Nixon made this statement 14 years ago; maybe he had no reason to swear then. Today if there is a reason to use foul language, Nixon certainly has it. Just as many people have changed their values concerning the presidency, I think Nixon has the right to change his values regarding the use of X-rated expletives...
...demonstration of their machismo. In a survey of the language patterns of 3,000 midwesterners, Psychologist Paul Cameron found that 24% of the vocabulary of factory and construction workers on the job consists of "dirty" words. It is hard, notes Cameron, to put together sentences with more swear words than that. White-collar professionals, he found, have only a 1% rating in the office and 3% to 4% at parties. This distinction does not apply to the nation's No. 1 white-collar professional. Proper at parties, he lets himself go in the highest office of the land...