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...rule over a big, expensive house in fancy Chestnut Hill (Rizzo denies persistent reports that he spent up to $410,000 to buy it and fix it up). He will not even say "hell" in the presence of a woman, but when he is with the boys he can swear with the best of them-especially at the newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILADELPHIA: Brotherly Hate | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...quite sure that is an authentic De la Renta gown that Nancy Kissinger is pictured in? I swear it is the same dress my mother wore to her junior prom in Hoboken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Apr. 12, 1976 | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

...field is large, but in the Celebrezze headquarters staffers swear "we're the only ones with any kind of organization...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: Politics on Location: | 4/7/1976 | See Source »

...swear that I never took advantage of menstruation to keep any woman from equal status. Frankly, I find this dabbling in one's secretions, excretions or exudations in the name of self-knowledge and dignity unproductive and unnecessary. Messy even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 15, 1976 | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

Millet was an artist, not a propagandist; his depth of feeling was as unquestionable as his lack of egotism. "I will swear to you," he wrote to a friend in 1851, "at the risk of seeming even more of a socialist, that it is the human side that touches me most . . . and it is never the joyous side that shows itself to me: I don't know where it is. I have never seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Great Lost Painter | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

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