Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dick both wore short morning coats and striped trousers; Mamie wore a black taffeta dress, and Pat a two-piece green wool suit. At 10:26 a nonfamily guest, California's Senator Bill Knowland, stepped forward and administered the vice-presidential oath to Dick Nixon, who swore fealty to the Constitution with his hand resting upon a Bible that had been in his family for five generations. Pat and the Nixon children watched solemnly-eight-year-old Julie sporting a black eye from a sled accident a few days before...
Last summer, worried by the possibility that Viet Nam's Chinese might one day shift their loyalty from Chiang to Mao-as Cambodia's Chinese colony apparently did recently-Diem swore that "Before I die, I will Vietnamize Cholon." He issued a series of decrees declaring all Viet Nam-born Chinese to be Vietnamese citizens and prohibiting foreigners, i.e., Chinese, from engaging in eleven vital trades, from rice milling to brokerage...
...country with the Western Hemisphere's worst addiction to inflation last week took the pledge and swore off abruptly. Bolivia launched a determined attempt to force its currency, lately worth around 10,000 bolivianos to the dollar, back up toward its 1951 value of 200. The tools to be used: a drastic stripping-away of artificial economic controls, and a $25 million stabilization loan.* The boliviano's inflation is not yet a classic like the German mark after World War I, when prices multiplied 1.2 trillion times. But in recent months the boliviano has been clearly and dramatically...
Staunch Friends. All told, the examiners found a shortage of $564,000 in Uncle Bill's accounts. Was that all? a director asked Rose. Dramatically, the banker raised his right hand, swore that it was. That night Rose was charged with the federal offense of altering bank records (maximum sentence: $5,000 fine and five years in jail), released on bail...
Premier, who swore that only the young "firebrands" had been seized and would be held in camps inside Hungary only until "strengthening of the People's Democracy can be accomplished...