Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegates have abstained? A recheck was hastily made and greeted with sighs of relief: only 535 members were on hand, and all had voted "Tito." This crisis past, Tito was still President and dictator of his country. No one administered the new oath of office; he swore himself in. During the day, the parliamentarians gave him a total of eight standing ovations...
Quick were newsmen to look at the record. The record: at a press conference on Aug. 5, 1948 (the. day Alger Hiss swore to the Un-American Activities Committee that he had never been a Communist), Truman was asked: "Mr. President, do you think the Capitol Hill spy hearings are a good thing, or do you think they are a red herring to divert attention from the anti-inflation program?" Mr. Truman's reply: the hearings are a red herring. Then & there he made an exception to the rule banning direct quotes from presidential press conferences. Said Mr. Truman...
...have done it!" But in his heart he knew he was no Gainsborough. What Sargent had in abundance was a capacity for flattering his sitters in paint, and naturally they flocked to him. He complained that "portrait painting is a pimp's profession," and late in life he swore off it. "No more paughtraits," he wrote triumphantly to a friend. "I abhor and abjure them and hope never to do another, especially of the Upper Classes...
Calm, dignified and impressively tall, Bishop Helander came before the court to answer the charge. He swore on his "honor and conscience ... as a bishop and a Christian" that he was innocent. Then for 17 days he was turning and turning like a baited animal to defend himself against the evidence that came at him from every side...
...witness stand, Coleman admitted attending a Communist meeting with Rosenberg 16 years ago during their senior year at C.C.N.Y., but he swore that he had never seen, heard from or corresponded with Rosenberg after they left college. McCarthy, who admitted he had no living witnesses to prove the story, confronted Coleman with testimony from Rosenberg's trial: Rosenberg said that while an inspector at Fort Monmouth in the early 1940's, he had seen Coleman there. Said McCarthy, threatening a perjury citation against Coleman: "Testimony from the grave is admissible here...