Word: swore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have fallen behind in importance to this all-consuming issue. Friendships gain a new dimension of tension. People studiously avoid the topic that carries weight for the next three years of our lives. Tears flow freely. Friendships seem to go up in flames. The little white lies my mother swore by backfire dramatically. Being blunt is the only option; then havoc breaks loose. We have been reduced to eighth grad--people stop talking to each other, talk behind each other's backs, scheming busily...
Claudia Poblete, a secretary in Miami, swore off online love after a correspondent from Indiana flew down for a visit and ended up chasing after her best friend. But her abstention was brief. Next month Poblete plans to meet her latest online suitor at--where else?--Disney World...
...photographer, Toni Marie Angeli, became enraged when police confronted her with the pictures. She swore at a police officer and then threw a lamp at a Zona Photographic Laboratories employee, according to Cambridge police...
...sent to Macedonia to be part of a U.N. peacekeeping force but remained in Germany after refusing to wear the U.N.'s blue helmet and armband. He has said that it is illegal to wear a U.N. uniform or serve under U.N. authority because he swore to uphold only the U.S. Constitution and government. If the Army court agrees, New's case could strengthen the cause of Congressmen who oppose putting U.S. troops under U.N. command. But because the fundamental issue is one of obeying orders, Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says the Army is unlikely to side with...
...most destructive war in history. We have collectively resolved time and time again that the tens and tens of millions who perished shall not have died in vain. Yet, for all the pious proclamations to the contrary, Bosnia shows that we have not remembered the lessons we swore that we would never forget. In the town of Mostar, pock-marked by mortar shells, someone has scribbled on a wall a reminder and a reproach: "Don't Forget." Maybe this time...