Word: swear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oath. Then Ike placed his left hand on the Bible his mother had given him when he graduated from West Point in 1915, opened at Psalms 33:12* raised his right hand and intoned after Chief Justice Earl Warren: "I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help...
...social worker from the Western Avenue section put it, "The parents around here seem more interested in having a good time than in being parents. They spend a lot of time away from home and leave the kids on their own. And when they are home they drink, and swear, and fight, and engage in illicit sexual relations. It's no wonder the kids...
Although a few of the lines seem terribly familiar--"You swear all the time," "I do nothing of the kind, damn it!"--the mood is buoyant, because the stage is often full of two alligators, nice bits of Life With Father, and Walter Pidgeon, who has a wonderful time bounding around in the title role. He has an effective supporting cast headed by Diana van der Vlis as his boxing daughter, and George Grizzard as her finance. The several actresses who play society women all flutter very nicely. So does the play...
After that, the growing drama of the boy's unhappy betrothal to a human girl is developed through the dancers' fingertips-pointing at the eyes to indicate tears, at the forehead for mystification, at the ceiling to swear by all that's holy, etc. There are magic veils, palm reading and plots until the sylph's little wings drop off and, faltering as if blind, she dies. When, amid all this fabulizing, they get a chance to dance, the Danes are light on their toes-as if the stage were covered with foam rubber-and their...
...alltime record for riding race winning thoroughbreds. Less than two hours later, Johnny won again. He picked up a big horse named Arrogate and heaved him under the wire to win the day's feature by a dirty nose. Now Grandpa Longden, 46 (horsemen with long memories swear he is 50), is the winningest jockey in the world...