Word: swearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...postponed. Snow stopped falling, the sky cleared, and a white winter sun shone down. At 12:51 o'clock on Jan. 20, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his breath frosty in the frigid air, raised his right hand and pronounced the fateful words: "I do solemnly swear...
...hatch all manner of vice, immorality and crime." As though to cool the oven, Texans planted the main campus only a few blocks from the state capitol in Austin. Politicians have seldom left the faculty alone. As recently as 1959, legislators introduced a bill requiring all state teachers to swear belief in a "Supreme Being." It was their notion that the university swarmed with "atheists," who must be Communists...
...Cuba's press stood in chains fresh-forged by Fidel Castro. On Formosa, Newspaper Publisher Lei Chen was imprisoned for daring to be critically independent of Chiang Kaishek. Indonesia's President Sukarno commanded editors to swear allegiance to his regime ("Our publication is duty-bound to support guided democracy") or lose their licenses...
...complaint: "Honey, you lied when you said you loved me." Not at all, bleats Songstress Thelma Carpenter, with the air of a forgiving wife: "Deep in your heart you know who lied." Songstress Jo Ann Perry is ready to meet Elvis halfway ("Elvis, darling, come back to me/ I swear faithfully/ The curtain will never come down"), but she tries to shift the blame for her defection to a "bad actor" who had "oh, such a good line...
...police hoped that this technique would cause some bohnenkai fans to swear off. But they fear, with considerable justification, that the bohnenkai has become so much of a tradition that by next Christmas, the lessons will be forgotten...