Word: swore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Without proof, both possibilities were left to squirm side by side. Either Lewinsky was lying when she swore under oath that she had never had a sexual relationship with the President, or she was lying through the hours of conversations she had with her friend Linda Tripp, who would later betray her, keeping a tape running to spin a web that would catch a President. As each new tape surfaced, each new detail arose, of Secret Service logs showing late-night visits when Hillary was out of town, of presents sent by courier, of a dark dress saved...
...could," he says. "I had zero interest in science. I got out of every science class I could, there was nothing that could predict my becoming a scientist. I rejected academia, I rejected everything. I mean, it was the '60s. When I graduated from high school, I swore up and down that I would never go to college--so, I always felt it was ironic that I ended up in science...
...similar punch lines occurred time and again, it became clear that among my family members and friends there are more than a few bagel experts--individuals who have come to see themselves as the food's self-appointed defenders and trustees. It's as though they've all secretly swore an oath of regional loyalty, one which bars them from acknowledging the integrity of any foreign product. Eventually my sister entered the debate, breaking the deadlock and introducing a sensible if still questionable explanation for discrepancies in bagel quality: bagels are best if boiled, she intoned, and it is this...
CAMBRIDGE: Shock waves continue to reverberate through the American legal system one day after Judge Hiller Zobel's surprise decision to free a British au pair convicted by a jury of murder. Aghast, prosecution attorneys swore vengeance for baby Matthew Eappen. Others were uneasy at the way Zobel had imposed his will over the jury?s. "We are a system that believes in juries," said TIME National Correspondent and former civil rights lawyer Adam Cohen. "When a judge steps in, you have...
...Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of online traders did get through--and they swore by the experience. Slow trading was better than no trading for online investors who were maneuvering their funds minute by minute as they followed the market's jagged path. Such intimate control over funds is one reason investors are flocking to the digital trading floor. Offline brokers charge higher commissions, "and you can't really see what they're doing," says software engineer Steve Salgo, 40, whose balance was instantly updated on his computer--no waiting for a close-of-market tally. "I could see what...