Word: swears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were a player, a singer, a fellow musician. But with luck and fine timing, you could also be a casual guest, a dinner companion, a colleague's spouse--even, if the furies were snoozing, a journalist. In 1988 Sinatra, the paragon of show-biz sangfroid, told Larry King, "I swear on my mother's soul, the first four or five seconds, I tremble every time I take the step and I walk out of the wing onto the stage, because I wonder if it will be there when I go for the first sounds...From the minute you step into...
...were the talk of the town," Manson sings in the track's closing moments, a reference to one of the Pretenders' hits. Indeed, Manson called Hynde up to ask her permission for the vocal homage. Says Manson: "A fax came through the machine saying, 'I, Chrissie Hynde, do solemnly swear that the rock band Garbage can sample my sound, my voice or indeed my very a__.'" When an established rocker is willing to give so generously to a new band, it's an indication of the group's promise...
...person. But his personal life was at odds with his family-values rhetoric. So he got his first wife to sign an affidavit saying it was her adultery that broke up the marriage, and he got his wife-to-be, former Miss America Tara Dawn Holland, to swear that she is a virgin "saving herself for marriage." He attacked his opponent, Lincoln's Mayor Mike Johanns, over nudity on a public TV station in Lincoln that the mayor doesn't control...
...sound like a digital-age version of "the dog ate my homework," but we swear that the reason our Reuters news feeds are down is probably because of the same glitch that knocked out up to 90 percent of America's pagers, as well as various radio and TV broadcasts and even many card transactions at gas pumps and ATMs -- PanAmSat's Galaxy 4 satellite has gone a-wanderin'. After the failure of onboard control systems left technicians powerless to stop the key communications satellite from drifting out of position yesterday evening, the binary fabric of our electronic society began...
...next stage of expansion, the candidates will include Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, three former Soviet republics that border Russia itself. Russian officials from Boris Yeltsin on down swear they absolutely, positively will not tolerate Baltic membership in the Atlantic alliance. This stage, two or three years from now, could mean a return to some form of East-West cold war. And since nuclear weapons are the only way NATO could defend the Baltic states against a threat from Russia, it could also mean a return to the terrible days when thermonuclear missile forces confronted each other across European borders...