Word: swore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...returns a sudden gentleman of fortune. At the gaming table he wins most of the estate from the ruined Hindley, but too late. Cathy, doomed to die in childbirth, curses him. Within hours of her funeral, Heathcliff meets his own fate, perishing on the hills where the lovers once swore eternal fealty...
...with eyes closed and letting herself (occasionally, himself) fall slowly outwards, always to be caught in the nick of time by all the pairs of outsreched palms. This is an exercise you've done dozens of times before; William Schutz and Dan Seltzer called it the Trust Game and swore by it; so did your Women's Collective. But still, in these days of the White Lie and the Big Lie and the Nationally Broadcast Administration Lie, you find it a bit odd to be as apparently gullible as to tumble around a circle of perfect strangers...
Rivers held a deep mistrust of the press, and with some reason. He was keelhauled by the Washington press corps for his marathon drinking bouts. When he became chairman of the Armed Services Committee, however, he swore off liquor and kept the pledge...
...University of Nebraska, did nothing to diminish the stark picture drawn by Sledge. From a position some 75 yds. from the drainage ditch, he was witness to much of the killing there. His testimony clarifies some of the discrepancies between earlier versions of what took place. He, too, swore that both Calley and Meadlo had fired at groups of civilians. "Continually," he said, "small groups of people were brought up, and they would be put into the ditch and fired upon by Lieut. Calley...
...Robert Maples, 22, a machine-gunner in the platoon and now a warehouse worker in Freehold, N.J., swore that Calley had asked him to use his machine gun on the Vietnamese. Maples said that he had refused...