Word: swear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian Consulate. Singing the Marseillaise as they paraded in an organized demonstration, war veterans massed in front of Corsica's imposing monument at Bastia to World War soldiers while their chief read to veterans and citizens alike an oath of allegiance to France: "With all our soul, we swear, on our glories and on the graves of our dead, to live and die French!" As one man they echoed back: "We swear...
Forty-eight hours later, to the physicians' further amazement, Elka Abrams opened her eyes and, when told of her condition, exclaimed: "I swear I never touched sweets." Regular injections of insulin, said the physicians last week, will thin down Mrs. Abrams' honeyed blood, soon put her on her feet again...
Texas consented 5-to-3 to kill a clause from its 1876 Constitution requiring Governors and other State officeholders to swear they have never fought a duel...
Almost certainly Hitler and Göring think air power will soon have made sea power obsolete, but they know the British Admiralty is full of crusty heroes ready to swear that "By gad, Sir, none of your dashed bombers has ever sunk a modern capital ship and they haven't taken Madrid. The Navy is still the Navy, Sir, and England is still England." In that atmosphere, which seems very favorable to modern Germans, an air pact conceivably may be signed. Its drafters will have to take into consideration first the quantitative air strengths of the great powers...
...scientific farm-loan appraisals, having made a revolutionary study of mortgage history of farms of different soil types. Only 37, he is wiry, energetic, given to pounding his hands together and cussing. Says he: "Between my father's mules and prehistoric gasoline engines I learned to swear early...