Word: swears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of and does not support any organization that believe in or teaches, the overthrow of the United States government by foul or violence or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods, and (2) has taken and subscribed to an oath of affirmation in the following form: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will bear true faith and allegiance the United States of America and to support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States against all its enemies, foreign and domestic. The provisions of Section 1001 of The 18, United States Code, shall be applicable with...
...Uncommon Enterprize." As a young man, John Adams fancied the ladies, and advised his nieces to practice the good old New England custom of bundling. In 1759, at the age of 23, Adams vowed mightily: "Shall I sleep away my whole 70 Years? No by every Thing I swear I will renounce the Contemplative, and betake myself to an active roving Life by Sea or Land, or else I will attempt some uncommon unexpected Enterprize...
With a flutter of press releases and a blare of bands, Detroit last week began its annual rites of summer: press previews of next year's car models. Everyone had to swear not to take pictures of what he saw, since the first public displays are at least three weeks away. Current state of the automotive arts as represented by the 1962s...
...whole truth and nothing but the truth. how often we hear these words, and how often people glibly swear to fulfil them! But can we ever determine truth that will be acceptable to everybody? No, said Luigi Pirandello...
...other hand, by sly understatement, his chipper account poked fun at officious "bashi-bazouks" like the camp Kommandant, and a corporal whose mania for counting and recounting the prisoners prompted one inmate to swear: "After this war is over. I am going to buy a German soldier and keep him in the garden and count him six times a day." Concluded Plum: "I would say that a prison is all right for a visit, but I wouldn't live there if you gave it to me." Bertie Wooster could hardly have put it better after a night...