Word: swearing
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...Mistake. Finally, Her Majesty's government was forced to recognize that they had made a mistake. Under new Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, agreements were worked out which changed the Kabaka from an absolute to a constitutional (and therefore more manageable) monarch, and King Freddie agreed to swear renewed loyalty and obedience to the Queen. But Freddie got more than he gave. The British reshaped the protectorate's Legislative Council to include, for the first time, more Africans than whites. They promised not to press the East African Federation. They gave Buganda control over its own natural resources...
...could swear you said Phummmmmptnnn Street," I said...
...want to get sentimental or dramatize this thing," says De Sapio, "but I want to tell you-I swear to God that if the day ever comes when those guys or their kind [Costello & Co.] have any hold over me whatever, I'm going to get out so quickly it'll make your head swim. The thing you have to remember is that an awful lot of people are depending on me-on my political integrity-for their political futures, their jobs-everything. I couldn't possibly afford to get mixed up with mobsters or hoods...
...political suppliants who have been crouched there like Arab beggars since daybreak. No sooner does he arrive at his office as Secretary of State than in troops a platoon of prospective cosmetology board officials, ready to have De Sapio administer the oath in which, as required by law, they swear to adhere to the Constitution of the United States of America and to the constitution of New York as they supervise the state's hair wavers. Then, moving uptown, he holds forth for at least a few hours each day in his national committeeman's offices...
...oath of office to Harold E. Stassen as United States Deputy Representative on the United Nations Disarmament Commission. It was Stassen's fourth oath-taking since the Eisenhower Administration took office (Mutual Security Administrator, F.O.A. Administrator, Special Assistant to the President for disarmament): "It seems I am always swearing you in," commented the President after the ceremony. "Do we ever swear in anybody else?" ¶Went off to his Gettysburg farm for a five-day stay and a heavy load of work: 309 unsigned bills, left by the departing Congress. Next week he will fly to his annual vacation...