Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Piracci had erased some names from his ledgers. Among the names deleted: Nancy D'Alesandro. On the witness stand in Piracci's trial, Nancy admitted getting six checks totaling $11,130.78 from Piracci. But she swore that $1,500 of it was a gift to their newly wed children, Tommy III and Margie. The rest. she claimed, Piracci lent her to pay off debts incurred in her feed business and a venture with a skin softener called Velvex...
...Indo-China. The flares were designed for bomb-bay release, but tonight they would have to be shoved by hand from the C-47's door. The delicate business of arming them must be done after takeoff. A sergeant flung one flare tail cap on the floor and swore. "It's defective," he grumbled. "This happens all the time. The bombs are too old." He pointed to the date stenciled on the flare bomb by its U.S. manufacturer...
After the fuss that you boys made over a letter I sent you some years ago, I swore that I'd never write another word, but this is a situation that raises my hackles. It's all about this All College Weekend. You must think that I'm just a busy body, but all I say is that I wish some other mother had told me a year ago what I know...
...daughter go to that mess after she begged me and swore that she'd try to be good. But when she came reeling in at 12:30 at night after escaping the fleshpots of Harvard, I just couldn't contain myself. Now, other mothers can let their daughters go off like that, but I have to worry about my daughter's position and her standing at Radcliffe. I'll just bet that other mothers feel the same. A Radcliffe Mother (Name Withheld by Request...
...Moss testified that she had never even heard of Communism until 1948, swore she "would have reported" anyone who asked her for a coded Signal Corps message. She was asked: "Did you ever hear of Karl Marx?" The crowd laughed as she answered: "Who's that...