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...nothing in his study suggests that he believes homosexuality has any place in a manual of disorders. The new work, however, does feel oddly out of step with mainstream thinking. Most scientists stress that everything from brain architecture to environment help determine sexuality. While gays may be able to swear off one kind of sex and grimly slog away at another, that doesn't alter their basic orientation. "It's possible to change almost any human behavior," says geneticist Dean Hamer of the National Institutes of Health. "But changing the underlying mechanism is a different matter." A study presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Gays Switch Sides? | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...learn not to swear,” Mitchnick said, “but to betray the trust of the people you work with? For Michael [Lawrence] to [forward the “fuck” email to Personnel] was treacherous...

Author: By Daniel K. Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Staff Complaints Led Knowles to Remove VES Chair | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...when I plug in a new peripheral, something all too often goes horribly wrong. My computer sputters, chokes and begins firing off error messages. Then it becomes eerily silent, unresponsive to anything but the emergency-restart button. After what feels like days on the phone with tech support, I swear never to mess with my PC again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flat And Happy | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...aloft like a trophy didn't quite cut it. It didn't quite feel like the Emperor was wearing no clothes (he was, in fact, decked out in traditional black turtleneck and blue jeans), but it came close. Thirdly, he was almost - gasp! - subdued during the subsequent interview. I swear, he almost smiled once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Seven Veils of Steve Jobs | 5/2/2001 | See Source »

...hours. The location and personnel vary, but you’ll play it for two hours and swear it’s only been ten minutes...

Author: By Robert A. Cacace, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cacace at the Bat: Harvard's National Pastime | 5/1/2001 | See Source »

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