Word: swear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...referred to the section as Green-pernt [TIME, June 21]. I knew McGuinness well . . . and I never once heard him or anyone else from Greenpoint mispronounce the section's name. . .It is perfectly true that New Yorkers often render "oi" as "er," and vice versa, but I can swear under oath that Greenpoint is called Greenpernt only by people from Coney Island, Croton-on-Hudson and Beverly Hills...
...Exchange cheered, jumped up & down, and thumped each other. Reason for excitement: the Dow-Jones industrial average had broken through its previous high mark of 187.66 -made in 1947-as the rail average had done 19 weeks before (TIME, April 19). Under the famed Dow theory, which many traders swear by, that meant only one thing: a bull market...
...record "of obstructing national policies" might endanger the company's fulfillment of armament orders, and refused to renew its contract. Under the Taft-Hartley law, the union could not bring charges of unfair labor practices before the National Labor Relations Board; its officers had refused to swear they were not Communists...
...Communications would be disrupted ... Airplanes would fly smack into mountains and towers-and the surviving pilots would swear they were properly lined up for landing...
...walk, he is by turns charming and churlish, chatty and mum (he likes to read between races ? usually bestselling novels). Sometimes, when another rider has done something in a race he doesn't like, his dander rises and he tosses equipment around the room. He can swear as proficiently as any jockey, but when the occasion calls he can speak perfect parlor English...