Word: swore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps because of his weak chin, perhaps because he is unromantically short (5 ft. 7 in.), Tormé realized, he had tried to be frighteningly manly. He made a brave show of it, dated Ava Gardner, collected guns, swooped around town on a motorcycle, swore a lot, got tough with nightclub owners, insulted customers-but all to no avail. "Most women who have dug my music have thought I was a little doll," he says grimly, also recalling that his manager once told him, "With your baby face, nobody cares about your opinions...
...were deserting him, self-exile might not be such a bad idea after all. Last week 23 of Tshombe's top Katanga gendarmerie officers flew into Leopoldville for a let's-be-friends dinner of roast chicken and crepes suzette with leaders of the Congolese army, then swore oaths of allegiance to the central government...
...Bourguiba's old foe, the late Salah ben Youssef, who lost a bitter struggle for control of Neo-Destour, Tunisia's only political party, and went into exile in 1955. When Ben Youssef was murdered in West Germany in 1961, his followers back home blamed Bourguiba agents, swore vengeance on Tunisia's boss himself...
...Swore in Christian Herter. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, as chief U.S. negotiator for the new tariff program, and Francis Keppel, former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, as U.S. Commissioner of Education...
...rescue, he murmured gratefully, "How beautiful the sun is." But in the next breath, to his rescuers' dismay, he boasted exultantly that he had conquered the Eiger. Later, he was pilloried in the press and charged with deserting Longhi to save himself. When he was finally vindicated, he swore that he would attempt the mountain once again. "I dream about it all the time, that evil wall," he told Olsen, "I dream that I am on the summit and I have climbed the wall, and I am at peace...