Word: swearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief Justice Oscar Bedford Daly advanced to administer the oath of office. In the khaki of a British major general, the nervous, unsmiling Duke shifted uncomfortably under a red, crown-emblazoned canopy, repeated the oath of allegiance: "I, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Duke of Windsor, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George, his heirs and successors according to law, so help me God." On a special dais, a step below the Duke but, in deference to her title, a step above the floor level, sat the Duchess, fanning...
...opening proceedings took exactly eight minutes. Clerk of the Court Greffier Jardel read the oath: "Do you swear honestly and faithfully to fulfill your duties, to guard religiously the secrets of the deliberations, and to act throughout as a worthy and loyal magistrate?" One after another the seven justices said: "Je jure." Then Chief Justice Caous adjourned the court. The long and painstaking inquiry into the responsibility for France's defeat was scheduled to begin this week...
From "Uncle Joe" down to the rawest gob, the men and officers of the U. S. Fleet swear they could lick Japan's Navy. In full-dress sea fight they ought to. But in the quiet watches, the bravest must remember Alfred Thayer Mahan's dictum: that a Navy is composed of men, ships, bases. (Admiral Mahan, the high priest of modern navies, died before air power began to confuse sea power.) What the U. S. Navy lacks in the western Pacific, Japan has: a sufficient line of bases...
Chromosomes are visible, but no man can swear that he has ever seen a gene. High magnifications have shown distinct segments along the chromosome's length, but it is not certain whether these are bundles of genes, or whether the genes occupy spaces between the segments. It is generally assumed that the genes are single big protein molecules, but that is not certain either. And the mechanism of the genes' heredity control remains obscure...
...heart beat. My hand shook a little. Suppose that he were one of those sharp, kindly-savage Americans who bark like dogs, sit in their shirt sleeves, curse and swear, chew the damp stubs of cigars." It is, however, only Alfred Noyes. But the novelist's journalistic boss turns up soon enough, steers him around to see the Pope lying in state, coaches him on how to open his articles with a bang...