Word: swear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crew days with the greatest of pleasure, and tells how once, when the crew was not rowing up to par, he let forth a yolley of curses at them. "I was one of those Puritanical, goody-goody Boston boys," he recounts, so the crew had never before heard him swear, and Charles Francis Adams, the stroke, turned around and said, "Damn it, Woody. How in Hell can we row if you swear...
...Clyde B. Aitchison of the .Interstate Commerce Commission wryly suggested that witnesses before the commission ought to take the following oath: "I swear that what I am about to read has been faithfully and truthfully prepared for me by my attorneys...
...better to let children swear than to repress this enthusiasm," to give them freedom to bite, scratch, break furniture, tear up books, attend classes only when they have nothing else to do, is more than asinine. It is vicious...
Take revenge as you like, but if there is one Hindu or Sikh left alive in my district after you are through, I swear to kill them myself...
...onlooker marveled: "Everyone must raise his hand to swear that he is a child of God and won't tell lies!" One witness thought he knew what was wanted; he put hand to forehead and intoned: "Heaven is above and earth below. May my conscience be relied upon!" Did a witness know the difference between truth and falsehood? the court wanted to know. When phrased in literary Chinese, this seemed a question for Kant or Confucius. The witness said "No." Did he know the difference between right and wrong? "Oh, naturally," said the relieved Chinese...