Word: swore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comprehensive course about the intricacies of our nation's bureaucracy, which was meant to gear me up for the A.P. exam, I spent three hours each morning listening to the ranting and raving of a liberal hippie from Florida. He wanted us to call him Bob. He swore by his Birkenstocks. And he thought anyone who wanted to run for the President of the United States was crazy...
...They never asked me if I was a voter," he said. Although he swore an oath to the Democrats, he was still a Canadian citizen...
...cell phone and, when roused, a foot on the accelerator of his jeep as heavy as a rhino's. He got straight through to the nearest medical unit, which was in Broome, 75 miles away. Then he tore up the road to the wreck, where he held my hand, swore that help was coming and listened to me begging him to shoot me if the gasoline, which was leaking copiously from the crumpled innards of the car, caught fire. Would he have actually done so? I don't know, but luckily for both of us there was no stray spark...
Maybe, but Reagan was, by the accounts of those who worked most closely with him, one of the most passive and incurious men to ever occupy the Oval Office. During his first term, one of his closest advisers swore that on his own, Reagan could not have found the office of the White House chief of staff. Morris' reconstruction of the Iran-contra scandal paints a devastating picture of a floundering and uncomprehending Chief Executive...
Almost all of Adams' contemporaries, who swore they'd retire, have started new companies. But Adams is steadfast in his refusal to work. So he's going to spend his weekdays this fall commuting to Los Angeles to study guitar, and then fly back for his weekend drawing classes. He knows all kinds of things now, such as what time of the day the supermarket is least crowded. And ever since reading a tome called Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, he's got a little weird about progress. He doesn't use the Internet or watch...