Word: swears
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time they left Ft. Leavenworth (goddamn Kansas) prison army base, forget the guys she'd fallen for who'd slugged her, Patty, who was smart but never read, who stood by traditions of the South, "Any niggers try to marry my kid I'll kill 'em, I swear to God I will. It's not right, black and white marrying like that. It's not meant to be, the Bible says so," and Patty loves the black people that she knows, she really does, or did ... does. Patty who loved to lie on the beach, who finally married Porky Morrison...
...only swear, swear...
Brown has an impish solution. Already in the hopper is his resolution for a constitutional amendment to abolish the Senate and create in its place a House of Lords, whose duties would be nonexistent. "To qualify," reads his resolution, "each member must swear or affirm publicly that he is a sincere candidate for the President of the United States...
...milk-and-cookies. One wandered from room to room, talking, always talking. One washed and dusted and vacuumed, and kept her margins even. And we all stood screaming in the corridors. Now one of those girls is married, one in a mental hospital, one working in New York; I swear to God I don't know which is which...
...Richard Harris, Grambling, 6 ft. 5 in., 265 lbs.; and Tody Smith, Southern California, 6 ft. 5 in., 250 lbs. As menacing as any of the great pro linemen Grambling has turned out (Ernie Ladd, Willie Davis, Buck Buchanan), Harris is the quickest of the bunch-as fast, coaches swear, as some of the team's running backs. "When he decides he's going in," says one scout, "that's it. You can't keep him out." Though Southern Cal's Smith missed six games this season because of injuries, he will not be overlooked...