Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tanks & Jets. Thieu, with Ky following a respectful two paces behind, first lit a symbolic flame of freedom in a large urn, then mounted the red-carpeted steps to recite the oath of office. When he was finished, pretty Vietnamese girls in ao-dais released hundreds of colored balloons into the air. In his brief, plain-spoken inaugural address, Thieu told the South Vietnamese that now "my preoccupations are your preoccupations; I shall rely on your eyes to see more clearly and your concern to gain a better knowledge." He again offered to hold direct talks with Hanoi...
...just stuttered and fluttered, wrinkled my chin and pushed my hair back, then, wiping the spittle from the corner of my mouth, belted out a huge belch, after which I let out a four-letter oath; I gasped and bit my lip; my tongue twitched. Then unable to contain myself any longer, I talentedly threw...
Said Marshall: "Let me take this opportunity to reaffirm my deep faith in this nation and to pledge that I shall ever be mindful of my obligation to the Constitution and to the goal of equal justice under law." Two days later, Marshall took the oath in a private ceremony conducted by the court's oldest member, Justice Hugo Black, 81, of Alabama...
...World War I). He was rather an honorable officer and gentleman, a colonel on the general staff of the German army. Why, then, did he decide to organize and lead a conspiracy against the life of the chief of state to whom, as an officer, he had sworn an oath of fidelity...
...Among other things, the 600-word oath requires seminarians to state that they believe in miracles and also in rational proofs of God's existence, and that they "totally reject the heretical notion of the evolution of dogmas...