Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tribulation ... A girl cannot step into the bushes to pluck a rose without running the most imminent risk of being ravished." Staten Island's 400 militiamen, who had been called up by Washington to defend the island, grounded their muskets and obligingly swore allegiance to the Crown. That oath was administered by New York's newly returned Royal Governor William Tryon, who had to spend recent months in the sanctuary of the British ship the Duchess of Gordon...
Albee understood "the territorial imperative" before the term was invented. The marriage of George (Ben Gazzara) and Martha (Colleen Dewhurst) is a strip of defoliated jungle from which neither intends to retreat. They are locked in mortal combat and, in an ironic echo of the marital oath, only death will be able to part them...
Guizar is now waiting impatiently on his citizenship. He has taken the test, signed the naturalizations papers, and expects to take the oath before the end of April. But though Guizar will soon be an American citizen he refuses to attribute his success to some kind of "American Dream...
...Nothing would make me happier," allowed Elliot Richardson during his oath-of-office ceremonies at the White House, "than to serve as Secretary of Commerce until January 20,1981-thus putting to rest the notion that I can't hold a job." Richardson, 55, is a former Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Attorney General, Under Secretary of State and the U.S. Ambassador to Britain. "I may be at this very moment entering the Guinness Book of World Records as the most sworn-in of Americans," quipped Richardson. "If I hadn't been moving...
Zimmerer will drive both sleds again. He will have two weight men for ballast in the four, and brakemen under oath not to slow him down. The principal challenge could come from the Swiss, East Germans or the impetuous Italians. Says Italian Team Director Giorgio Galli: "We often have to keep some of our boys in the hospital longer than we should to make sure they don't get back into a sled prematurely." Not even warm weather deters them. In the summer the Italians replace their runners with wheels and career madly down mountain slopes and roads...