Word: swearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...District Judge Sarah T. Hughes, a trim, tiny woman of 67 whom Kennedy had appointed to the bench in 1961, pronounced the oath in a voice barely audible over the engines. Johnson, his left hand on a small black Bible, his right held high, repeated firmly: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help...
...would fight to the death against Communism for the values upon which the principles of democracy are based, but I swear, if we go to war over how many men can possibly be in a convoy truck [Nov. 15], I will not even go to a bomb shelter...
...amateurs are quite so bold-though most teams swear that they can "hang in there" with any small college. Practice is generally limited to one night a week, often on poor fields with inadequate lighting, and a team's repertory is likely to be dictated by circumstance as much as by design. The Townies rarely try end sweeps because their practice field-"The Oily" (so named because it is covered with a thin film of oil)-is split by a sewer...
Collies & Champions. There are 500,000 pedigreed bird dogs in the U.S.-silken-haired Irish, English and Gordon setters, springer spaniels (named for their ability to "spring" pheasants from thick brush), high-strung German Weimaraners and Dutch Griffons. Some hunters swear by collies and cockers, and it is not uncommon to find a German shepherd or even a great Dane ranging through the cornfields. But for speed, range, endurance and nose, no dog matches the pointer. A good pointer can scent a bird 100 yds. away. He will hold a quivering point for half an hour or more, and once...
Opposing coaches swear that he has eyes in the back of his head. As he dodges around back there, he has an uncanny "feel" for tacklers closing in on him from behind, and the glint of sunlight off a gold helmet among a swarm of defenders downfield is all he needs to register the position of his receiver. Says Coach Hardin: "Some people will be in a room a thousand times, and when they're out of it, they can't tell how many lights it has, what shape the furniture is, or anything. Staubach could. He sees...