Word: swore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Tacho swore he would not be flanked again. "You think I'm going to let them put me between two fires? No! The battle for Managua will be fought right over there in Tegucigalpa. When the first Legionnaire pokes his nose in, the Guardia will be there...
...four radio networks to the White House one day last week and asked for air time for that night. Having in mind the rules of the campaign, the network officials asked: "Is this political or is it Government business?" Government business, said Ross. When they looked skeptical, Ross swore them to secrecy and told them of the President's idea. They went away to think it over...
...happened to read this column Wednesday, you may remember that I swore to find out more about that Radcliffe Freshman. Here's the straight word. But first, just to freshen up your memory on her, she was the one a friend of mine overheard saying, at a Phillips Brooks House tea, that she came to Radcliffe because it's three hours from New Haven, switched from French to Drama soon after arriving, and thinks she may now have to transfer somewhere else on account of there's no Drama course at Radcliffe...
...days later, the report said, a Soviet Embassy official went to Nelson's home, gave him "ten bills of unknown denominations." The committee recommended that Nelson be prosecuted for espionage and cited for contempt of Congress. It said that the testimony of "Scientist X," who swore that he had never known Nelson, would be turned over to the Attorney General...
...General George Washington issued many general orders against profanity in the Continental Army, but, according to another officer, on one bad day at Monmouth he himself swore "until the leaves shook on the trees . . . Sir ... he swore like an angel from heaven...