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Word: swearing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Error Two. Five days later, the facts of Thomas Aurelio's nomination were laid on the record: he owed the nomination to a flashy, potent racketeer named Frank Costello; day after he was selected, he had called Costello's private telephone number to swear "undying loyalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Manhattan: The New Justice | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...tinkle of the bell summoning House members from the lobby at precisely 2:30 p.m. Eight hours later-with a two-hour dinner intermission-they catch Speaker William E. Barnard's words ending the day's session. Although the broadcasts have long since lost their novelty, guesstimators swear that for big debates half the Dominion's radios pick up Australasia's most powerful station (2YA, 60 kilowatts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Government by Radio | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...with a bunch from Brooklyn. That was the year Mickey Owen dropped the third strike on Tommy Henrich. We were in the sunny southland, but I'll swear it didn't stop raining until the following February. And all on account of that third strike...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE M. avakian, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 10/15/1943 | See Source »

...behold, there is a single-wing to the left, with line likewise. In the meantime, the chances are 100 to 1 that one of the defensive linemen has crossed the line of scrimmage and then comes the horn and five yards. It never misses, although people swear up and down that it's not intended to draw offsides. Just happens to work out that...

Author: By Robert S. Landau, | Title: Passing the Buck | 10/8/1943 | See Source »

...Boston vicinity will end Boston's observance of the WAVES' first anniversary as they pass in review before Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald this Friday at 4:30 o'clock. Following the parade there will be a night program at Symphony Hall, where the Navy Recruiting Office will swear in new WAVES...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAVES MARK FOUNDING DAY | 7/27/1943 | See Source »

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