Word: swears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interrogation of Ms. Kirk, e.g., "How does it feel to know that your room is burning up right now?" I am appalled by his complete misunderstanding of sarcasm or wit. I admit that Ms. Kirk should have known better than to trust The Crimson with a chance to use swear words in a front-page story. (I do wonder how your alumni readers as well as parents who subscribe to your newspaper react to your casual use of "mother fucking" on the front page.) Nonetheless, I feel that your reporter, or at least an editor should have taken more care...
...swear that a germ of veritas doesn't lurk in Goldhagen's screed. Let truth and falsehood grapple, said Milton--let former student and present professor debate at some forum in Cambridge what Jews did or didn't do after the Holocaust...
...from trends as the passage of seasons it records, In the Deep Midwinter (Picador USA; 278 pages; $23) homes in on these four fallen but forgivable souls as they try to find the right way to act in a world where women smoke but never swear, and pregnancy and infidelity can destroy. It's no coincidence that author Robert Clark sets his debut novel at precisely the moment when America's confidence in leading the world and its belief in its higher myths about itself began to crack...
...honored, but not perhaps in the way he had long hoped. With the Presidential Medal of Freedom around his neck, Dole stood Friday in the White House he'd failed to claim and said: "I, Robert J. Dole ... " As East Room erupted in laughter, Dole continued dryly: " ... do solemnly swear. Uh, wrong speech." Just three days before Clinton will utter that same oath, he awarded his election opponent the nation's highest civilian honor. Dole was clearly moved when Clinton said: "Son of the soil, citizen, soldier and legislator, Bob Dole understands the American people, their struggles, their triumphs...
...uproar over Ames, the most important mole ever discovered within the agency. On the basis of information Ames provided over almost nine years of betrayal, Moscow executed at least 10 Soviets working secretly for American intelligence. Anger and embarrassment led the agency to swear it would never happen again. Two months after Ames was sentenced to life in prison, Nicholson was allegedly getting $12,000 from the Russians...