Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed Afrika Korps. At ceremonies in the town cemetery they paid sober honor to their former leader, Field Marshal Rommel, and to their comrades dead in the African campaign. Frau Rommel, who was present, leaned weeping on the arm of her 22-year-old son Manfred. The veterans swore to support the democratic German state, shun party politics, uphold the military virtues of bravery and comradeship...
Still Pursuing It For two days and one night last week, Barbara Payton stayed true to Franchot Tone. She visited Tone in the hospital where he was recovering from his fight with Tom Neal (TIME, Sept. 24), swore that she would marry him, and publicly called Tom Neal "a brute." There was even some twittering about a bedside wedding. But then Barbara was herself again...
Last week Charlie Wilson swore Bedford in as head of the Production Executive Committee, gave him power to ride herd on the whole defense program. A few hours later, Bedford took off on a tour of West Coast aircraft and ordnance plants, hunting new bottlenecks to unclog...
...bitter week for Hungary's Roman Catholics. Into Budapest's Parliament building walked Archbishop Julius Czapik, the eight remaining bishops of the Hungarian hierarchy and the heads of four religious teaching orders. Hands to hearts, they swore "to be loyal to the Hungarian People's Republic...
...League pals. Penn, with its eye on the cashbox, had told the world it would telecast all its home football games this fall-in spite of the N.C.A.A. decision that only one game each week should be shown in each television area. Whereupon several Ivy League colleges swore they would drop Penn from their schedules...