Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lieutenants (all qualified navigators) on to pilot training. Swapping hit the Navy hardest: 57 Annapolis graduates (including the No. 1 man) chose the Marines. 83 the Air Force, six the Army. As 10,000 Annapolis spectators laughed, the Army's Lieut. General James F. Collins swore in the ex-midshipmen, cracked nautically: "Welcome aboard...
...During the war, the Sultan gave $4,200,000 to the British war effort, did not lose heart even when the Japanese swept down through Johore and captured Singapore. With his wife he swore off liquor until the British reconquest. When Johore was "liberated" in 1945, the joyous Sultan cried out: "Now we can break our vow. Open the champagne...
...year-old, Tomy Lee outgalloped Tuleg. He won six of eight races, earned $213,460. Turner became ferociously proud of his unheralded colt. When a handicapper weighted Tomy Lee two pounds lighter than Christopher Chenery's First Landing, Owner Turner swore that his horse would "run First Landing down" at the first opportunity...
...third case, both man and wife were recurrent alcoholics, but always out of step: when he drank, she swore off; when he gave it up, she tippled-each partner getting a vicarious satisfaction and feeling of superiority from the other's drinking to the point of incapacity. "Alcoholism tends to preserve such marriages," said Dr. Browne. His prescription : psychiatric treatment for both partners...
...begin with, Marthe had to sign the marriage register with her less aristocratic real name of Maria Boursin. Embarrassed at having to reveal her humble origins to her husband, she told a little lie; she swore that she had no living relatives...