Word: swore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston's players brought out an old Celtic device as smelly as Red Auerbach's cigar and Boston Garden. They locked themselves in their room, damned the league, condemned the media, agreed that the commissioner, the referees and everyone else in the world were against them, and swore to get even with the lot. Topping off his farewell performance as general manager, Auerbach, 66, even rumbled about the abuse his team was taking on CBS, which was slightly preposterous, since TV Color Man Tommy Heinsohn participated in ten Celtic titles as player and coach...
...gallery was especially vocal during the match between Richard Jackson and Tiger freshman Fazal Sheikh. When Sheikh swore at Jackson in the heat of battle, the curse could be heard throughout the bleachers, and elicited hisses and boos from the fans...
...people and their land. A lot of true grit sifts through his pages. A farmer leads his sons as if growing things were a war on nature: "Their machines moved out over the fields, the mower clattering, breaking down at least twice a day. The old man stomped and swore. He nicked his hands replacing sharp steel teeth. The hayrakes followed his mower, his sons turning the dried hay into neat, continuous piles that looked like whorls of a huge thumbprint." A mother lays down the facts of life as immutable laws: "There's a lot more to life...
Then came the suggestion that he might even have been framed. According to Cologne's newspaper Express, a gay-bar patron swore that he had been offered $7,000 by army agents to testify that he had had sexual relations with Kiessling. The assertion was immediately denied by the West German military...
...brilliant sunshine of a late spring morning, he drove slowly through downtown Buenos Aires in a 1967 Rambler Ambassador to the cavernous old congress building. Inside, he solemnly swore to discharge his responsibilities, and delivered an eloquent, hourlong statement of his new administration's ambitions. "The state in which we have received the country is deplorable and catastrophic," he declared. "Our goal will be that Argentina becomes free once again, grand, fraternal and prosperous, the way we all want it to be." Then the genial new leader motored through flag-decked streets to the Presidential Palace. As foreign delegations...