Word: swore
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...recent interview,Days of Thunder producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer(Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop I and II, Top Gun) swore that they had balked at the prospect of making a sequel to their fabulously successful Top Gun. Well, they lied...
...least I gained compassion from the experience. I swore to myself that I would never, ever again ignore a guy at a dance or laugh when someone asks...
...warehouseman. Then the two quarreled bitterly, reportedly over his fondness for her niece, and she ordered him to leave her apartment. Now living in a tiny room and hustling for handouts on the street, he wanted her to take him back. She refused. When he swore at her, a bouncer ordered him to leave. He did, but with a parting threat: "I will be back. I will shut this place down...
Popularly elected he was not, but Mikhail Gorbachev nevertheless swore himself in last week as the first real President the U.S.S.R. has ever had. As the parliamentarians at the third session of the Congress of People's Deputies rose to their feet, Gorbachev walked from his seat to a small table by a red hammer-and-sickle flag. Placing his right hand on a copy of the Soviet constitution, he intoned, "I solemnly swear to serve faithfully the peoples of our country, to strictly abide by the constitution of the U.S.S.R., to guarantee the rights and freedoms of our citizens...
After almost 70 years as a republic of the U.S.S.R., Azerbaijan seemed to peel off its Soviet trappings almost overnight, turning into a foreign country under occupation by invaders. Enraged Azerbaijanis called for guerrilla warfare and swore to "fight to the last drop of blood" to drive the Soviets out. Almost a third of the republic's 380,000 Communist Party members burned their membership cards. Local government offices and police units ignored Moscow and looked to the ten-month-old Azerbaijani Popular Front for leadership. "If Gorbachev wants a second Afghanistan," shouted Ekhtibar Mamedov, the Front's representative...