Word: swore
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Kids knew this stuff was funny. Connoisseurs now know it was great. But to studio heads Jack and Harry Warner, the work of Chuck & Co. was just filler. Jones swore that the Warners believed his unit was making Mickey Mouse cartoons--"and when they found out we didn't, they shut it down." This was in 1962; after a quarter-century directing terrific, profitable, studio-defining films, Jones was earning all of $37,500 a year...
...defendant--who was also doing the questioning. In a show of disrespect, Elshani refused to face the man he holds responsible for the seven dead bodies he found in his yard and for the man in police camouflage who put a knife to Elshani's throat and swore, in Serbian, he would cut it like a sheep's. Pointing his finger but still not looking at the accused, Elshani was not intimidated. "How can you say nothing happened?" he asked the man who had been his President. "It is unimaginable the things that you have done...
Ever since disgruntled citizens of Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden swore their nation's founding oath of confederation in 1291, Switzerland has reveled in remaining an Alpine stronghold, happily cut off from political and economic turmoil in the world's lower realms. Fear of weakening the country's vaunted neutrality, independence and grass-roots democracy has kept Switzerland out of nato, the European Union and almost every other political alliance dreamed up by the world's multilateralists. That could change this weekend, when voters decide whether the country should finally join an organization it has hosted for 55 years: the United...
...Alexa. It was the era of the Uptown Girl, Downtown Guy. Becoming a father was a profoundly life-changing experience. That was the single most important moment of my life, when that little girl was born. I grew up with no father; my father was never around. So I swore that I would be there for my child. It's as if there were a fault line, and every seven years I have an earthquake. And each of them has made me steadier on my feet...
...find anything to make a person worry. It's all peaceful now and the people who will build the roads and wells can come." The sixteen other leaders - all in kameez, vests and brand new army jackets - concurred, talking over each other and contributing to every question. They swore they'd not supported the Taliban, though thousands of soldiers were recruited from here; six hundred from Baghran are prisoners with the Northern Alliance in Mazar-i-Sharif and Kunduz alone. "The Taliban would not ask to take our sons, they would catch them on the road," said Gaffar...