Word: swearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, both Dallas and Montgomery Counties employ an elected sheriff and several deputies. When "necessary," a sheriff may swear in an unlimited number of possemen. In Montgomery on Tuesday it was these mounted possemen wearing denim jackets and ten-gallon hats, who trampled more than 600 demonstrators, beating several senseless. They enjoyed their work, and they went at it with rebel yells and cries of "yippee--get the bastards...
Italy and France grow nearly all of the area's annual 110,000-ton output but no European kitchen could long survive without garlic. Some Europeans even swear by it as a remedy for rheumatism; Russians eat garlic to fight the common cold, last week rushed in an emergency 500 tons for Moscow's flu epidemic...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11--Surgeon General Luther L. Terry of the Public Health Service reported Monday what he called encouraging progress in getting Americans to swear off cigarettes--but at the same time he deplored "the amount of cigarette smoking still going...
Terry said that "measurable, discernible" progress made during the past year in getting additional people to swear off cigarette smoking brings to some 18 million the number of Americans who are now "ex-smokers...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Every living wordmonger of sacred theatrical cliches would swear that no one could make musi cal entertainment out of the spilled blood, blind gallantry, and stupefying idiocy of World War I. Joan Littlewood and her adroit London Theater Workshop company have done it. The result is hilarious, ironic, heartwarming and heartbreaking...