Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week-notwithstanding the pressagentry that kept her ten years old for three years-Patty backstage is still often the grade-school child, an inveterate lap sitter. Onstage she is a polished professional who can think on her feet. Once, when a set door stuck and Anne Bancroft swore helplessly under her breath, Patty promptly began making her "noises," the grunts of the speechless, to cover Anne's indiscretion. When Anne finally whispered, "I'm going to shove you out the window," Patty made the drop and managed to make her way to her stage mother...
Sweet Smell of Excess. In Spartanburg, S.C., a jury could not decide whether Wilbur Fowler Allison was guilty of drunken driving, despite a cop's word that Allison reeked and was staggering, after Allison's barber swore that he had doused the accused with a 70%-alcohol hair tonic shortly before his arrest...
...quiz fixes (see below) that the scandal had not been isolated; both NBC and CBS, all quiz shows in general, and hundreds of individuals were deeply involved. A more disturbing note on U.S. morals, 1959: of 150 quiz witnesses who appeared before the New York County grand jury and swore before God (or on their affirmations) to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, no less than 100, said District Attorney Frank Hogan, had lied, or to put it in legal language, perjured themselves...
...Ulysses. Nora had only a grammar school education, but when Joyce spouted his literary dreams to her and then declaimed: "Is there one who understands me?", Nora understood enough to say yes. She eloped with him to the Continent (they were not married till 27 years later) and he swore to "try myself against the powers of the world...
...other action, the new Council president, Michael H. P. Belknap '63 took office and swore in vice-president John P. D. van Schalwyk '63 and Secretary John E. Reissner...