Word: swore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were abandoned in 1948 as this little man almost overnight became a unifying tide and took office as millions sang "Blessed Be The Tide That Binds." For one of the few times in the country's history the People's Ticket was victorious. Political experts were befuddled, news editors swore off alcohol...
American Newspaper Guild, had been trying to find somebody to bargain with in Springfield. Like Bowles's 517 employes, the Guild was sure Bowles was boss. But his three publishing companies had been ordered dissolved by 'the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and Bowles swore up & down that that left him just an advertising salesman. Fortnight ago, the NLRB told him to quit kidding and bargain with the Guild...
...years Bidu gave Rio a wide berth. Reason: in her last appearance there in 1940 she was booed and hissed by a claque. The claque had been hired, cried she, by a jealous operatic impresario named Gabriella Besanzoni. Bidu swore she would return only when Besanzoni was out of power. Last week in true operatic fashion, Gabriella - now retired -swooped backstage after the first night's performance. Gabriella, dressed in full-length ermine, gathered Sayao into her arms and kissed her on both cheeks...
Shotgun. Harrison watched part of the mob lead quivering Roger Malcolm and George Dorsey down a sandy track toward an oak tree. The Negro wives left behind in the car began to shriek. Harrison heard one of them call out the name of one of the mob, but swore he couldn't remember what...
...much of their physical manufacturing plant. They could recoup that-but they could not recoup Allied victory. First, they dissolved their holding company. But that was only a superficial shedding. The real core of Mitsui power and solidarity was the family constitution; each male Mitsui, on coming of age, swore sacred Shinto oaths to uphold the Mitsui constitution and further the family interest...