Word: swears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stakes are at their highest. Clinton is one step from being removed; his fate is in the hands of 100 Senators, whom Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is due to swear in as jurors tomorrow...
Were Francis Albert Sinatra still alive today, he'd have been 83 years old last Saturday. Some people swear by his resoluteness and style. Many, simply swear at him, and probably justifiably so. Bracketing Frank the man, few can deny, though, his fundamental importance to American popular music. In such spirit, I'd like to say, Thanks Frank. Thanks for the music...
...officials swear they no longer fear exposing any lingering secrets about CIA support for Pinochet or for his 1973 coup against Chile's socialist President Salvador Allende. What does concern them, they say, is the prospect of a dangerous new right-left polarization in Chile if Pinochet were tried abroad. But having said that, the officials claim they are trying to signal to the Chilean government that it must "make the tough decisions it needs to" and pledge to try Pinochet itself. Of course, Pinochet has immunity at home, and no one thinks he would be put on trial there...
...speak to us, lest we die." God complies, Moses ascends and verbally receives what the ancient rabbis called the "10 pearls," which he reports to the Israelites. In a ritual similar to contemporary Hittite and Assyrian treaties between a King and his vassals, the Israelites then swear their loyalty to the Lord. God bids Moses to ascend again, this time for 40 days, to receive "the stone tablets" written by God's very finger...
...claims and counter-claims, lawsuits by the thousand and cash settlements in the millions of dollars, actual science has played an almost insignificant role. Women who say they've been harmed insist there's a cause-and-effect relationship between leaky implants and major immune-system disorders; manufacturers swear their implants are safe. But even though the FDA finally ordered the devices off the market in 1992, neither side has offered much proof for its position...