Word: swore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom the rebels 70 days ago proclaimed "President of Mexico." Ruined and ignored, poor Don Gilberto must rue the day last December when he resigned his honorable post of Mexican Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of St. James's and listened to the sword- handy gentlemen who swore they would make him President...
...gloved hand shot up in the Fascist salute, and the deputy in question shouted "Giuro!" ("I swear!"). Straight down the roll to "M" read Il Duce, never moving a muscle until he came to his own name. "Mussolini!"-his right hand shot up like all the rest. "Giuro!"-he swore allegiance to king and country. Perched on the enormous throne sat tiny King Vittorio Emanuele, looking even smaller than usual under a terrific damask canopy surmounted by a vast crown. When he rose to deliver the "speech from the throne"-that is to say, Mussolini's declaration of policy...
...sobriquet of "only French college in the U. S." It was in Nimes, France, one solemn morning in 1851, that the first Augustinians of the Assumption took their public vows. The vigorous doubt of Voltaire and the science of Diderot had troubled Catholic France. The Assumptionist Fathers swore to combat irreligion in Europe, to missionize in the East. From the Balkans to the Dead Sea they established their posts. Shrewd, they learned Oriental languages, heard confessions in German, Greek, Turkish. Some-times they adopted and altered slightly alien rituals to make their gospel first familiar, then embraced. In Jerusalem they...
...minute the ceremony of swearing in the whole House membership. Heretofore the oath was administered to groups of 20. This time all members stood together. Each raised his right hand. The Speaker carefully read the oath. A thunderous "I do" rolled solemnly through the chamber as 402 members swore all at once...
...Christ's Bones!" swore the infuriated General. "Is this obedience? Is this discipline...