Word: swearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skeptics. In Vancouver, B.C., when prosecution witness Maxime Bertrand refused to swear on the Bible because he was an agnostic, Magistrate Mackenzie Matheson retorted: "Then I refuse to hear your evidence...
...King Michael's last major acts before he abdicated, 2½ years later, was to swear in Zvi Rabinsohn's daughter as his Foreign Minister. That was during Soviet-Rumanian Friendship Week...
...week, when she has taken her walk to the Nieuwe Kerk, Juliana will be inaugurated (she will not be crowned, because the truculently democratic Dutch do not like their monarchs actually to wear the crown, which is considered the property of the state, not of the monarch). Juliana will swear to "protect the general and individual freedom . . . the general and individual prosperity ... as it is the duty of a good Queen to do." Then the chairman of the Joint Session of the States-General will, on behalf of the sovereign people, pronounce the proud and wary formula: "By virtue...
...Sign of the Horns. Captured by the post-atom Californians, Poole is condemned by the Chief of the Californians to be buried "alive or dead ... as you like," but when he promises to teach the barbarians something about science, he is grudgingly let off-on condition that he swear by "Almighty Belial" and make "the sign of the horns." For in lower California during the 22nd Century, Belial, the devil himself, rules; his victory over "the Other One" was consolidated in Atomic War, though his battle for power began centuries before...
Some said it sounded like "pon!" Some believed it was more like "pan!" Others claimed that "pitchi" or "patchi" or even "zuboo" best described the sound, while others were willing to swear it was a whispered "pussu" as dainty as the beat of a butterfly's wings. Whatever the sound, it was certain that it took a sharp ear to hear it. But sharp ears were bent to catch it: last week, as they had each summer for upwards of two centuries, Japan's perceptive poets and philosophers listened more carefully than ever for the soft explosion...