Word: swore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coke Stevenson cried "fraud," and charged that 202 votes had been added to Johnson's total after the polls were closed in Jim Wells County, which is a Parr stronghold. He had affidavits from citizens of the county, who swore they had not voted although the lists showed they had. But Johnson offered affidavits from the same people, in which they swore that Stevenson's men had intimidated them into making their charges. The committee voted, 29 to 28, to include the protested votes and certify Johnson as the winner. Coke Stevenson stalked out, started legal moves...
Hugh Dalton, who draws down $20,000 a year as Britain's Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (a cabinet sinecure), made a major concession to the harsh facts of modern British life: "because of the rise in the cost of living" he swore off cigarettes* (he had been smoking two packs a day, at 70? a pack...
...Virginia Amusement Park, after setting a new world's record for flagpole sitting-52 days, 13 hours, and 58 minutes. In San Francisco, Milton ("Shipwreck") Van Nolan, 22, settled himself more firmly in his cowboy saddle on a pole above Horsetrader Ed's Kar Korral, swore he would break Ozzie's record...
...Nope," the News swore, "we ain't." Then it pointed out that a four-letter word isn't necessarily simpler than a twelve-letter word. "For illustration, here are some shorties which we'd call real $7 words, and wouldn't use here at this time without explanation: adit, erg, ergo, ohm, gloze, cozen, griff, modal, mure, snash, viable." On the other hand, the News thought that most of its readers would understand fairly longish ones like "intolerable" (though "unbearable" was better), or "incompatibility" (because of divorce cases), or "vulnerable" (because of bridge being so popular...
...university decreed a return to the pre-British forms. Mukerjees, Chatterjees and Bannerjees would find themselves listed as Mukhopadhyaya, Chattopad-hyaya and Bandopadhyaya. Anything simpler, Calcutta nationalists swore, would be a British imperialist corruption...