Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hungary from Czechoslovakia, Rumania and the Soviet Union. It was said that Budapest was ringed with Soviet steel and the loyal Hungarian air force had been driven from Budapest airport. The Soviet generals explained that these were merely precautions taken to protect returning Soviet personnel, swore that Soviet forces would be out of Hungary "in three weeks...
...soldier who fought the Germans in two wars, spent five years in their prison camps and another three commanding a regiment in the postwar German occupation, General Bolle got plenipotentiary powers and was answerable to nobody in his new job. He swore in a 37-man civil service, including two gendarmes, to carry out his orders. As virtual dictator, French-speaking General Bolle might well have exerted a tyrannical sway over the 704 German-speaking woodcutters, dairy farmers, amateur smugglers, refugees and commuters (to nearby towns in Belgium and Germany) who peopled his realm. But General Bolle was not that...
Last week in the President's home, a very much alive Iskander Mirza swore in 64-year-old Hussein Suhrawardy as Pakistan's fifth Prime Minister since independence, and then, with a broad smile, garlanded him with roses and jasmine...
...months later, after the bloody Poznan riots (TIME, July 9), Poland's desperate Communist bosses had to go further to assuage nationwide discontent. They admitted "immense wrongs" done to the Polish workers, promised widespread pay increases, and even swore by Marx and everything else holy that the Communist Party was about to abandon direct management of the Polish government and economy...
...harsh but just advocate of discipline, he imposed an iron discipline on himself. A drinker of strong spirits, he swore off hard liquor when war came, would sometimes stretch a glass of beer through a whole evening. In Washington, he lived aboard a ship in the Anacostia River instead of in comfortable quarters with his family, worked hard, savage hours in a small, Spartan office in the Navy Building. He took nonsense from no one, not even his commander in chief, became known as one of the few men in the Government who would resist the charms of Franklin Roosevelt...