Word: swear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bureau of Ordnance and the Bureau of Navigation, had a hand in framing many a present-day naval policy. Spry and trim, he belies his 61 years, but the seams in his face are eloquent of years at sea. Navy men who admire his prodigious physical endurance swear that they are not exaggerating when they tell how he once stayed on his bridge for six weeks during fleet maneuvers, relaxing only to take short catnaps. When he takes over his new office he will be no stranger to Washington. He maintains a residence there, has gone there whenever his duties...
Suddenly from loudspeakers near the microphone came a familiar golden voice in all its natural resonance. There was no mistaking it. It was the voice of Franklin Roosevelt himself and it said: "I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office as President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help...
...Bjorkvall at first would not speak to her. Eventually she cornered him in a hangar from which she presently emerged in tears. Said she. "I'm grounded. ... I expect he wishes to have all the publicity. I'm mad, but I'm a lady and cannot swear...
...proved that it had the old patient endurance last night as 13 undergraduate extra-curricular leaders sold their pet projects to the new Yardlings, sold by brilliant bombast, repartee, swear words, and even a lengthy joke here and there...
...Small tradesmen especially swear by Hitler for the reason that, although he has not yet abolished chain stores in Germany as he promised to do he has blocked existing chains from expanding the number of their branches and provided that if a branch is discontinued it cannot be re-opened or relocated...