Word: swore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to prepare for the legislature; he had 3,000 jobs to hand out. The biggest, that of executive assistant, would probably go to Huey's curly-haired, blunt-nosed son Russell Long, a 29-year-old lawyer who wants to be governor too, some day. Earl also swore that he would keep his campaign promises (among them: free school lunches, $50-a-month old-age pensions, and bonuses for veterans), which the New Orleans States estimated would cost the state no less than a billion dollars...
Said one old tennis star: "I've been watching these matches, and I'm convinced that Riggs can win any match he damn pleases." Pancho Segura, who once swore that Big Jake could trample over any tennis player, admits that he has changed his mind: "Until now I never saw Riggs play his best . . . Riggs is a great arteesian." But Australia's Dinny Pails, the fourth member of the touring tennists, thinks that Kramer will come...
...paralyzed by a railroad strike, Harry Truman stormed into Congress and gave Alexander Fell Whitney, co-leader of the strike, one of the savagest verbal rawhidings ever dealt a private citizen by a President of the U.S. With that, he broke the strike. Beaten and embittered, Al Whitney swore that he would use his union's last penny to humiliate and defeat Truman. "You can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk," he bellowed...
Birds and animals had a hard time of it. Long Island gulls and ducks, their shoreline food sources cut off by piled-up ice, took to swiping baby trout from the running-water ponds of the state's fish hatchery at Cold Spring Harbor. In Wisconsin, woodsmen swore that snowshoe hares limited their traveling to man-made paths...
...radio networks denounced his ban on television and his refusal to let FM stations share standard musical broadcasts. But they had been unable to draw forth suggestions for punitive legislation. The big men wanted to negotiate with Petrillo, not demolish him. Somewhat frustrated, the G.O.P. committee members swore that they themselves would reduce Caesar to size...