Word: swearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite my helpless state, I swear, I'll stay...
...years since F.D.R. went to the White House, have been hiding in a decaying family hotel under assumed names, indulging in weird hobbies, and barricading themselves against possible intruders. When at last someone manages to intrude, the girls turn out to be much less Republicans than know-nothings; they swear by the Literary Digest, are amazed that the banks have reopened and that there is a different Man in the White House. And they are soon as dissatisfied with modern-day Republicans as with New Dealers, though delighted-being broke-that brother Rensselaer's old habit of buying...
...nonnuclear, its "missile" countdown had required it to expose itself on the surface for 15 minutes-yet it still got off its shot. As compared to a nuclear submarine, able to fire a Polaris-type missile while still submerged, Sea Leopard was a mere seagoing perambulator. Indeed, submariners swear that to stop their boat of the future will be impossible. It is the job of Admiral Jimmy Thach, calling on all U.S. scientific and military resources, to achieve the impossible...
...began when he and his twin sister Lannie were still barefoot kids scuffling in the played-out dirt around their parents' shack near Jackson, Miss. Bill pestered the owner of the general store into giving him a guitar. "Bill could play your name on it," says Lannie. "I swear he could make it talk...
...starched shirt, Dr. Alberto Lleras Camargo, 52, stood stiffly through an enthusiastic 21-gun salute that shattered a Capitol window. He listened gravely to aging (69), ailing Conservative Senate President Laureano Gómez, who struggled to his feet to read the oath of office. Lleras Camargo answered, "I swear," and democracy was back in business...