Word: swear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediately after his election President Renner stepped over to Vienna's Presidential Building to swear in his successor as Chancellor, Leopold Figl, head of the Volkspartei. He also swore in the Figl Cabinet-as amended...
...wish to state that I stand here today with [a] clear conscience. I want to thank the United States of America for a fair trial.* I swear before my Creator that I am innocent of the charges brought against...
...that he had helped equip a great new laboratory on Mt. Alagoz, a remote eminence in remote Soviet Armenia. Kapitza's announced activity: research in stratospheric cosmic rays, a roundabout approach to the harnessing of atomic energy. U.S. scientists, pondering the sparse accounts from Moscow, were willing to swear that there was nothing roundabout in Dr. Kapitza's other atomic doings...
Britain's queen-to-be, 19-year-old Princess Elizabeth, looks more & more like her imperious grandmother, Queen Mary. But London's hopeful nightclub owners swear they also see signs in her of the lightsome strain evident in her great-grandfather, Edward VII, and her uncle, ex-King Edward VIII. Last week for the first time Elizabeth and her sister, 15-year-old Princess Margaret Rose, stepped out. They showed a touch of the Edwards, but more-much more-of Mary...
...bill was not supposed to be concerned with international control of atomic power. But its provision for iron secrecy, its original harsh penalties were patently part of an optimistic plan to keep foreign nations . (everyone knew that meant Russia) from making atom bombs. Scientist after scientist turned up to swear that there was no real secret to be kept, to point out that the May-Johnson bill would only throttle scientific research and start a world arms race. Amid all the confusion new bills were .written-last week a Ball bill, a McMahon bill, a Kilgore-Magnuson bill...