Word: swore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance to "show the world that [they] could fight as well as talk," and the counterattacks began. The overextended German army collapsed. In November the Kaiser resigned, and a scrappy little corporal, twice decorated for gallantry, flung himself on his hospital cot and wept. On the spot, Adolf Hitler swore he would devote his life to avenging his betrayed country...
...unscrupulous lawyer whom J.R. used and then threatened with a bogus rape indictment; Vaughn Leland (Dennis Patrick), J.R.'s banker, who was ruined when he bought into a Ewing double-deal; Bobby Ewing, whom J.R.'s dastardly business ethics finally drove from Southfork; and Cliff Barnes, who swore on his daddy's grave that he would avenge the family honor and "stop J.R. for good...
...August, just before his trial was to begin, Sindona disappeared. When he surfaced eleven weeks later, he had a bullet wound in his leg and swore he had been kidnaped by Italian terrorists. His defense later admitted that the tale was a hoax, and the bullet wound was never explained. Nor did Sindona ever say what he had done in Europe. Prosecutors at the trial suggested he had gone abroad to try to fake documents for his defense...
...NIGHT WHIZZES, spinning like the strobe globe at the disco where you loosen your hips, grinding to a song you swore you hated when the deejay played it four times during the hour you sat on the highway edging toward her house, which you couldn't find because her handwriting is horrendous compared to her typing, which she used to get the job as a secretary in the firm where you work, filing paper and talking it over with the guy in your office who says he knows how to handle chicks and seems to be telling the truth because...
...weight of these charges wasn't enough to convince either the Pentagon or the White House last year to scrap the AVF. Actually, the three services fell only 7 per cent short of their recruiting goals last year, and platoon sergeants swore to New York Times reporters that the latest privates were as good as any they'd seen. More immediately relevant, though, draft registration would neither replace nor bolster the volunteer army. Carter has explicitly stated he doesn't plan to use peacetime conscription to fill recruitment quotas. And the inductees of a peacetime draft are as little likely...