Word: swearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trial and the Rope. The war and German occupation brought Damaskinos to his full national stature. He returned to Athens as Archbishop after his old opponent, Chrysanthos, was dismissed for refusing to swear in the first quisling Premier, General George Tsolakoglu. But Archbishop Damaskinos was no stooge...
Midwives in Latin America now have their own version of the famed Hippocratic oath. As part of the cooperative health campaign of the U.S. and 18 Latin American countries, midwives are required to vow: "I swear in the name of God and my own conscience that I will never practice abortions . . . that I will always make use of the umbilical sterile dressing and of silver nitrate solution at one percent...
Where the LeMay career will lead depends on the kind of men the postwar air world will require. Many "old" Air Forces generals of 50 and above swear they are going to leave the A.A.F. to younger men at war's end. After his tour as Spaatz's chief of staff, and after his bosses have learned the mysteries of the Pacific and the biggest bombers, LeMay probably will join a selected group of younger generals being trained in staff duty in Washington for the postwar years -generals like Hoyt Vandenberg, Lauris Norstad, Elwood ("Pete") Quesada. Until then...
Cinemaddicts who remember the elder Fairbanks will be willing to swear that they have seen it all a thousand and one times before: the bejeweled, cloth-of-gold turbans; the moon-drenched palace gardens; the sleepy camels and fiery horses; interior sets as sumptuous as Hollywood nightclubs and exteriors that make the Taj Mahal look ramshackle; the vagabond street singer, Aladdin (Cornel Wilde), whose love for beautiful Princess Armina (Adele Jergens) is thwarted by the Sultan's wicked brother (Dennis Hoey...
Even before Fauré's death in 1924, blue-eyed Robert Casadesus (pronounced kah-sah-de-soo´) was well on his way to becoming one of the world's fine pianists. Today many swear that he is the greatest interpreter of Mozart and Ravel. Last week, to mark the centennial of Fauré's birth, he led a group of fellow French artists in a program of the composer's chamber music; the Museum of Modern Art audience of arty cosmopolitans voted it a fitting tribute and a notable curtain to another successful Casadesus season...