Word: profession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crime. Many of the estimated 70,000 American draft dodgers and deserters-concentrated mainly in Canada and Sweden-profess to share Frederick's feeling that amnesty proposals are irrelevant and even insulting. Indeed, they believe that there is a prevalent misconception in the U.S. that those who have escaped from military service are a sorry breed of men without a country, steeped in expatriate misery, who want only to be exonerated and allowed to return to their native land. Says Bob Anderson, 21, Frederick's roommate, who also deserted from the Air Force: "I don't think...
...Some do this daily, almost hourly, and yet talk about beauty in life and profess concern for justice and loveliness and peace!" he added...
...These Viet Nam veterans have surely triggered great rejoicing in Hanoi; they have compromised the men still in Viet Nam (whom they profess to love); they are the biggest bunch of crybabies ever to wear the uniform and a disgrace to the same...
...lime, "Love" is fruity and "You" has a cola flavor), Ripple (grape wine and tropical fruits) and Annie Greensprings (a grape rosé). The biggest sellers seem to be Boone's Farm, Bali Hai, Spañada and Ripple: exact figures are being withheld by the manufacturers, who profess to be uninterested in publicity...
...given Richard Rosen's credentials (22 years of living, four of them at Harvard) one could only hope for the worst: the last thing we need is another undergraduate holding forth with the truth. Instead, however miraculously, in Me and My Friends, We No Longer Profess Any Graces, Rosen chooses to speak only for himself. The result is-despite the 'umble posturing of its title-a most graceful, and often even gracious, little book...