Word: swore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those kind of off-the-cuff remarks belie the President's contention that he is being unfairly chastised. They also constitute a direct insult to people who are forced to live without jobs, food, or hope. After all, Reagan put his hand on a Bible in 1981 and swore to do certain things. If the media now want to call attention to millions of citizens facing despair, starvation, or death by exposure, the President should listen. Rhetorical attempts at martyring himself will not change Reagan's well-deserved image. Nor will they bring the country out of the dire straights...
...didn't want to go anywhere." Jobs lasted only a semester but hung around the campus wandering the labyrinths of postadolescent mysticism and post-Woodstock culture. He tried pre-philosophy, meditation, the I Ching, LSD and the excellent vegetarian curries at the Hare Krishna house in Portland. He swore off meat about this time and took up vegetarianism "in my typically nutso way." One temporary result, say friends, was skin tinted by an excess of carotene to the color of an early sunset...
...President expects those Latin American countries that rely on U.S. guns or dollars to, if asked, help him discredit Marxism in public speeches. Last month, for example, the Administration sponsored a "forum for peace and democracy," at which Caribbean and Latin American allies in effect swore allegiance to capitalism and shared the President's disdain for socialism and communism. But despite all his efforts to prevail ideologically. Reagan has achieved only marginal success...
...curb in front of Out of Town News, "Square Deal! Free Square coupons!" said one of the masses that flocked like vultures around me. "Two for one drinks!" another pitched in. "Wheelchair basketball," said a third. I had reverted back--back to my old self and I swore, right there, that I would never return, to the other side of the leaflet...
Pete cried foul play, and swore to catch Jerry with his pants down in his own series of retaliatory ads. Nevertheless, the polls now indicate that Jerry and Pete are so close they can smell each other's breath. The outcome will surely depend on upcoming ad campaigns and their impact on the voters...