Word: swearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John's' donkey cart. I swear ONE is the best Class...
Thousands of Hollanders were ready to swear that Simon W. J. Schaasberg, whose shingle proclaimed him a "psychometrist-homeopath," had cured them of every complaint in the book, from stuffy noses and hemorrhoids to pneumonia and cancer. For years, the sick had packed the tiny front room of Shaasberg's house in Maastricht. The street was sometimes blocked by cars and chartered buses that brought patients from afar. No less remarkable than his popularity were Shaasberg's methods...
...swear that everyone at Harvard has a cold," declared Edmond Tipping, Nieman Fellow from Melbourne, Australia. "There's so much coughing and sneezing at lectures you can hardly hear the bloke who's speaking. It must be the weather. In my country, the sun always shines...
...greatest pride is his job as official swearer-in. Said Mr. Will: "I swear in all foreign service employees, and as long as I swear them in, they are going to stand up and raise their right hands. It is a very important and solemn thing, and I insist on it." But some of his chores are more complicated. He remembers with embarrassment the time when he had the ashes of a diplomat shipped back by diplomatic pouch. When the pouch was opened in Washington, Mr. Will found that the cardboard container had split, and the ashes were spilled...
...pavement of cement slabs. In the daytime, the slabs expand in the sun's heat. In the evening, the concrete contracts, and the slabs wobble when a car goes over it." The edges grate on each other, and the noise echoes in the car. Grumbled Novak: "I swear that nearly every high-school kid in Detroit has driven this street. They even have parties on my front lawn. Maybe if you tell them what it is, we can get some sleep again." City engineers checked the explanation, and the Detroit Times printed it. But Mr. Novak was overoptimistic...