Word: swear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wildly improbable one, and the whole opera runs for 3½ hours. Yet it has one of Verdi's fieriest scores, some of his most memorable arias, e.g., the soprano's Pace, Pace and the old Caruso-De Luca specialty, Solenne in Quest' Ora (Swear in This Hour). Director Bing, who has already restyled Verdi's Don Carlo, Aida and Rigoletto-and who wants "very much to have in this house a complete Verdi cycle" -settled on Forza for his 1952 opener...
...persecuted, Smith suggests seven "don'ts for our new President: 1) Don't be careless with your secrets, 2) Don't discount all criticism, 3) Don't bridle, publicly, about being followed, 4) Don't lie to reporters, 5) Don't drink or swear in public, 6) Don't be patronizing to reporters or photographers, 7) Don't lose your temper in public...
Vague Loyalty. The technical definition of a U.N. employee's loyalties-to his country and to the U.N.-is vague. New U.N. employees swear to exercise their function as "international civil servants" in all "loyalty, discretion and conscience." "They are not expected," say staff regulations, "to give up their national sentiments or their political and religious convictions...
...Whispering Willie" was right as rain. He had never been to college, but he had kept the books of a chicken-feed company and his neighbors will swear that he never lost $3.50, let alone $350 million. When he got Agriculture's books, $366 million were missing. Subsequent accounting has reduced the discrepancy to a mere $81 million. Williams, in his small-town way, still considers that a lot of money...
...read of Fillmore's stopping off in Cincinnati . . . ?" Said Hassett regretfully, "That's all in Mencken." "But I've seen a paper the American Medical Association drew up . . ." said the President. Hassett gave Mencken credit again. The President shook his head. "I'd swear those A.M.A. fellows didn't think it was a hoax...