Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...District Court Judge Timmerman swore in his son as governor of South Carolina...
...hardness. Ex-Premier Mendès-France, breezing out of one rally to address another, narrowly dodged a left hook and threw one off-target in reply. The leader of the Union for Defense of Shopkeepers and Artisans, a motley, rowdy party standing against all candidates and most taxes, swore his followers to accept summary punishment up to and including death if found guilty of violating the party line. Another ex-Premier, Edgar Faure, filed suit because a newspaper printed a statement accusing him of indiscriminately passing out the Legion of Honor to buy votes...
CRIME president Cliff F. Thompson stepped out of his room, his face blue with cold, and swore a great oath at the Farmers Almanac for predicting the coldest winter of the century, James R. Ilgenfritz, president of New England Storm and Screen windows, for making it come true, and Radcliffe's Dean Lacey for removing the only available heating system...
...swore an oath at the weatherman for telling him that it was 34 below zero on top of Mount Washington, and an oath at the meteorologists for the 80 mile an hour wind which was going to ruin his skiing...
...Bernice Nicholls, wife of a polo-playing industrialist, swore that Broady invited her to his office once to hear a tapped recording of an alleged telephone conversation between her husband and ex-Ecdysiast Ann Corio. When Broady asked her if she would like him to make some more rec ords, she declined because, she said, "I was aware of the situation." (The Nicholls were subsequently reconciled, without Broady's dubious assistance.) ¶ Pepsi-Cola President Alfred N. Steele said that his telephone had been tapped without his permission or knowledge in 1954, when he was having "matrimonial trouble." Steele...