Word: swearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town of Guernica, twelve miles northeast of Bilbao, is the ancient seat of Basque democracy. At the sacred Oak of Guernica (now a dried old stump), the Kings of Spain used to swear to protect Basque rights, whereupon the citizens would confer on the sovereign the title of Senor de Vizcaya...
Theirs is the party, they swear, which in their own words will save it again...
...long ago I was surprised to see a notice in the Berlin press that TIME would soon be on sale again in Germany. Later that evening I made my newsdealer swear to save TIME for me for the rest of my life. Today the familiar cover of TIME glowed from Berlin newsstands, and in a few hours all copies were sold out. In the subway I entered into conversation with perfect strangers simply because they carried a copy of TIME under an arm, or were reading it. It was as though we were old friends...
...Mass of the Holy Ghost, then, wearing their plain black robes, filed into the Hall of Elections. After an exhortation on the qualities most needed in the new General, electors knelt for the prescribed hour of prayer and meditation. The hour past, each elector read the oath: "I swear that my vote has been guided only by the interest of the Church and the Society of Jesus," dropped his ballot...
What is the best treatment for a burn? The Chinese swear by tea. U.S. doctors, who have argued loudly about the subject for more than 20 years, have tried a vast variety of applications, including tannic acid (a component of tea), silver nitrate, hormone ointment, triple aniline dyes, sulphur water, cold water, ice, and a concoction of paraffin wax, sulfanilamide, menthol, camphor, vaseline and cod liver oil, the whole topped off by oil of eucalyptus to kill the smell...