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Word: swears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...They do a nice job of it, too. Their scenes with King Alonso’s servants Stefano (Jugo Kapetanovic ’07) and Trinculo (Molly O. Fitzpatrick ’11), to whom they swear an ill-fated allegiance, are very funny. Fitzpatrick, who brings a really wonderful, engaging ease to Trinculo’s drunken stumblings, is a perfect foil for Caliban’s spluttering rage. Kapetanovic does a terrific job of enjoying his new found servant(s): “Moon-calf!” he calls it/them...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Torpor Clouds a Strong ‘Tempest’ | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...human behavior down to decimal points and margins of error. But families are a good deal sloppier than that, a mishmash of competing needs and moods and clashing emotions, better understood by the people in the thick of them than by anyone standing outside. Yet millenniums of families would swear by the power of birth order to shape the adults we eventually become. Science may yet overturn the whole theory, but for now, the smart money says otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Birth Order | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...speed away?’” Under instruction from the Lampoon, Spektor declined to comment on the evening’s events. “I can’t have any comments for The Crimson,” she said. “They made me swear...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ’Poon Confuses All—Yet Again | 10/15/2007 | See Source »

...Captain Planet,” cites Caldwell’s “mild speech impediment” and jokes: “Looks like it’s Lucy—not Facebook—who’ll have the last lisp—uhhh, laugh. I swear, I meant laugh.” One commenter asked if making fun of someone’s lisp was necessary; another replied “no, but it’s fuuuunny...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly | Title: Speaking of Ad Hominem… | 9/11/2007 | See Source »

...Around friends, we slip back into regional accents we've spent years trying to exorcise--redneck recidivism--or embroider our speech with the kind of epic profanity more common to 19th century lobstermen. (That's the bad habit I revert to around my friends, all of whom swear like Friars Club roastmasters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Friends Make You Fat | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

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