Word: swore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith and Britain's Frank Roberts arrived in Moscow, mum was the word. It was even mummer after Reuters' Dallas and the Herald Tribune's Newman cabled a beat: STALIN EXPECTED RECEIVE ENVOYS TOMORROW NIGHT. Furious at the leak, the envoys swore embassy staffs, down to typists and cipher clerks, to secrecy...
...marriage (her second, his sixth), brunette Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor told the judge about life with her clarinet-tooting husband, Artie Shaw. In the tabloids, it all sounded like a souped-up version of her own Restoration fiction, in modern dress. In 31 pages of searing affidavit, Kathleen swore that Artie had screamed at her, beaten her, come home "drunken, abusive, and belligerent." He had also tried out on her his favorite theory of domestic relations ("The only way to keep a woman in line-be a caveman"). "He boasted of having thrown Lana Turner [Mrs. Shaw...
...father always swore when he cut himself with his old-fashioned chin mower. I said: 'Papa, if it hurts you so much to shave, why do you shave?' He replied, 'Egad, I don't know.' And he never shaved again...
When he runs, Patton's face becomes a study in desperation- teeth gritted, eyes squinted. He is the opposite of Charley Paddock, who was what trackmen call a "driver." Because of Paddock's high knee action and short back kick, people some times swore that "he ran sitting down." Patton, whose legs revolve' with a smooth wheel-like motion, is a "floater...
Perfectly clear to every pundit in Ankara's buzzing Karpic restaurant was what they swore was the real story. On an emergency call to one of Ankara's major embassies just before the murder, Dr. Arcan saw Orbay there in conference with the embassy's military attaché. Fearing that the doctor would tell what he had seen, Orbay killed him. Commented one Turkish official privately: "The real reason for this murder will only be made public if or when diplomatic relations between Turkey and a certain great neighboring power are broken...