Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tall and erect in a severe black vest and tail coat, Arturo Frondizi laid his hand on the Bible and swore to discharge his duties with "loyalty and patriotism." Cannon in the square outside boomed a 21-gun salute, and the 3,000 people jammed into the 1,000-seat Hall of Congress cheered the return of constitutional government after a decade of dictatorship and 31 months of military rule...
...line, refused to obey Teacher Edward Carpenter's command to get back in. Then Carpenter put his hand on McDou-gle's shoulder, in what Principal Irving Boroff described later as "a brotherly, positive way." Student McDougle cried, "Nobody touches my clothes!", shoved Carpenter a little, swore a bit, then ran out of the school to stand bewildered on a street corner. Someone called the cops...
...expense accounts at the same time that he was accusing FCC Chairman John Charles Doerfer of chiseling the Government on expanses. He had leaked secret subcommittee papers to newsmen even while denouncing subcommittee members for doing the same thing; under Schwartz's taunting, subcommittee members swore under oath, in one of history's silliest congressional scenes, that they had not leaked a confidential memo to Columnist Drew Pearson. What finally did it was a weekend press conference at which Lawyer Schwartz accused the subcommittee of trying to "whitewash" his investigations...
...said I was worrying, and I knew then I had to get that school off my mind." Smith talked his brother-in-law into helping him and swore his daughter to secrecy. "I never painted a school before. There were 241 openings I had to paint. I had to paint things the same color as they were, because I was afraid to change things. I figured when they found out I was doing it for nothing, I'd end up in jail." Smith's job saved the city more than $1,000, and for the time being...
...diplomats in almost every major capital of the free world could sympathize with Jock Whitney's predicament. Reason: foreign antagonism to the U.S. Secretary of State, long serious but diffuse, is becoming more and more a concentrated and measurable factor in world affairs. "Damned Dulles!" swore an Indian lawyer in Calcutta last week. "He is responsible for the tensions of the world! He is not allowing the Americans to come to terms with the Russians!" Added a high French Cabinet minister in Paris: "This man thinks like a theologian. Eisenhower is the mystic. Dulles is the theologian...