Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ambulance. A marine from the other side of the street replied: 'Bring 'em out on litters. The major says we've lost four ambulances, seven corpsmen and four drivers since last night. We ain't got the ambulances to replace 'em.' The medics swore softly, placed the wounded on litters and started back...
...cooperating" with the town police Charlie had done well in Myrtle Beach ever since 1937. But recently, members of the Ku Klux Klan began muttering about him; they swore his good-looking, light-skinned Negro wife, Sarah, was white, and that white women were entertaining at his place...
...week's end Sasser was still plowing ahead with his investigation. He had arrested ten more Klansmen (one of them, a member of the state constabulary, was promptly fired) and he swore he was going to pinch a hundred more. The state governments of North and South Carolina took steps to suppress Klan parades, and many predicted that the Klan, after its cowardly night's work, was through in both states for good...
Both were by Parisian sculptors already represented in the museum collection. Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space had long been a polished bronze bone of contention for museumgoers. To some it looked like a crackpot design for a propeller blade; others swore they got the same upward lift from it as from Shelley's To a Skylark. The museum's new Brancusi was a six-foot slab of blue-grey marble, precariously balanced on its side and entitled Fish. It had neither head nor tail, and no one could be sure in which direction the fish...
...current high of flustered muddle in the Truman Administration and it might be comic were it not so dangerous. The previous high was in 1946 when Truman's Secretary of Commerce, Henry A. Wallace, made a speech in Madison Square Garden calling for appeasement of Stalin. Wallace swore that he had personally shown the speech to Truman beforehand, but nobody ever figured out whether the President changed his mind after the speech was delivered, or whether he didn't realize what it meant in the first place. The White House announced that Harry Truman did not intend...