Word: swore
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Failure & Regret. The break became public in 1940, when Roosevelt began to flirt with a third term. Garner unhitched himself, offered his own name in opposition, was crushed, swore in Henry Wallace as Vice President and retired to Uvalde, vowing never again to cross the Potomac...
...week's end bitter fighting broke out again in South Arabia between members of the two groups. At least 17 persons were killed, 400 injured and more than 20 others kidnaped, including two federal policemen. The N.L.F. accused FLOSY of starting it all and swore "vengeance in full," but in Cairo leaders of the rival group pleaded with their followers to "halt the bloodshed and unite...
Many priests now report that Catholics entering the confessional are more serious about the experience. "Where we used to get 'I swore, I lied, I disobeyed,' now we're getting more conversation about the problems of life," says the Rev. Frederick Collins, Catholic chaplain at Harvard. Adds Monsignor Joseph Alves of Boston: "I find that people are more concerned about justice and charity than they ever were before. Their concentration is on recognizing the serious sins of racial bias and paying money for political jobs." Priests who work with college students report that boys are less worried...
Author Norwich is fascinated by the stocky warriors who came down from Normandy as pilgrims and found the lower Italian peninsula, with its brittle alliances and private wars, exactly to their taste. The Normans raised sword against anyone who blocked their way, even the Popes, to whom they swore fealty. As Norwich writes, they "mastered the art of being on the winning side...
...courthouse in Princess Anne, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Inside the courthouse, two Negroes were being held on charges of raping a white woman. The demonstrators had promised the state police that they would not mention the two prisoners, and indeed they did not. But they swore to return the next night, and the speaker concluded: "I'm going to tell you niggers out there now the best thing you can do is start taking reservations for Africa. Get ready to leave this country. This is a white man's country. Princess Anne is a white...