Word: swear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That Zeidler has plastered the South with billboards inviting Negroes to Milwaukee, and is therefore responsible for a major migration (actually nonexistent) and a resulting crime wave (Milwaukee has one of the lowest crime rates in the U.S.). Says Zeidler: "There are many people in this town who will swear they've seen those billboards. When you ask them, they'll say it was a neighbor. When you ask the neighbor, he says it was a friend of his brother's. But they are always very specific: the billboards, flaunting my signature, have been seen near...
...from a poem entitled "The Rebellion," written by a student in memory of the Riot of 1819: "But Oh! the Sophs! their frantic yells Were louder far than lecture bells They form'd a ring about the Tree, And to this solemn oath agree: 'By This Almighty Plant, we swear. 'We will not flinch a single hair 'Until the laws of College rot, 'And government is sent...
...line Propagandist Nikolai Pogodin in a Moscow play, We Three Went to the Virgin Land, has his hero Marochka soliloquizing: "Now, tell yourself, why did you give such a lightning-like consent to go to the Virgin Land? Was it because of the fear of a [party] trial? I swear it is not only the fear of a trial . . . Over there in the wilderness I'll start a new life. The past will be buried. Everyone will be drinking; I'll not. I'll behave. I'll be almost a saint. No one will say that...
...Pogodin's heroine Nelly, already in the Virgin Land, is less optimistic: "I just can't understand why all of us are not dead yet. Virgin Land, see that! It's a nightmare, I swear! No plumbing whatsoever anywhere . . . And I, fool, came to these lands! The little girl got caught. Ha! Ha! . . . And who asked me to come? No one. Not only nobody asked me, I was even warned against it ... And there is no toilet, just snow up to the neck . . . Between ourselves, one could have a nice zoo over here, because every night...
...confused blend of sound into the blossom-bedecked Chamber of Deputies in Rio's Tiradentes Palace, but the spectators seemed unaware of the background noise or the extravagant colors of the tropical flowers. All attention centered on a pale, slender man in white tie and black tailcoat. "I swear," he said, tense with emotion, "to uphold, defend and obey the Constitution of the Republic, and to maintain its union, integrity and independence." Intoned the presiding officer of the Chamber of Deputies: "I proclaim you, Juscelino Kubitschek, President of the Republic for a period of five years...