Word: swore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Bill glowered and complained that he had always taken the rap for the diabolical George. First it was petty theft. Next it was assault, then murder. Bill swore he had bawled George out and written him notes begging him to straighten up, get out of town, get lost in the river. But George was utterly willful, and he was a little cracked too. Witness the note he scribbled in lipstick on Miss Brown's bathroom wall: "For heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more." He wrote that in Bill's hand, like an expert...
Kennedy had testified that Redin had pumped him for information about the Yellowstone, its steering gear, machinery, radar; Redin, he swore, had paid him $250, had told him "Speed counts, it means thousands of dollars...
Since it was organized in 1944, A.V.C. had tried hard to be different from the stodgy, conservative American Legion and the oligarchic Veterans of Foreign Wars. For three days in the muggy Iowa heat, 840 delegates, representing some 60,000 members, shouted, sweated, thumped and swore as they hammered out their future aims...
...boasted to a U.S. marshal that he had clipped young Willie Nickell, a homesteader's son, at 300 yards. "It was the best shot and the dirtiest trick I ever done." Hidden court stenographers were listening in the next room for just such a confession. The marshal swore out a warrant for Tom's arrest. The sheriff picked him up in the lobby of the Inter-Ocean Hotel the next...
...death," whatever the Filipinos themselves might do. The effect of this reply, says Quezon, was "overwhelming. . . . When I realized that [Roosevelt] was big enough to . . . place the burden of the defense of my country upon the sacrifice and heroism of his own people alone, I swore to myself and to the God of my ancestors that as long as I lived I would stand by America...