Word: swore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Japanese surgeons can perform miracles. Jujin Hospital's Dr. Fumio Umezawa was once asked to remodel an unknown Hong Kong actress to look like a star who had died in the middle of a movie; his work was so perfect that superstitious studio hands swore they were seeing a ghost. After nearly three decades of plastic surgery, in fact, Dr. Umezawa admits to only one failure. It involved a Japanese movie actress who had come to him for the insertion of bags of silicone jelly to build up her breasts. Shortly after the operation, she had to go before...
Like West Germany itself, the massive grey and golden eagle that hung above the rostrum of the Bundestag looked pleasantly plump, more mercantile than martial and, with its blunted wings and studded breast, convincingly contemporary. Beneath it last week the 17-year-old Federal Republic of Germany swore in a new Chancellor whose accession to power marks the close of the postwar chapter of Germany's history and the birth of a new spirit and a new approach to the world for its 57 million people...
...cleared agreements with the Harvard Administration, and coordinated plans with the University Police. He had aimed all his efforts to prevent what had happened just twenty minutes before. Now as he walked to rejoin the Secretary of Defense at the Law School, his sentiments were to the point: he swore...
...election. It springs from the popular dissatisfaction, which faces every Democrat now running for office in Illinois. Resentment over the war and inflation account for part of this feeling but most of it stems from the Civil Rights Movement. Last summer the traditionally Democratic working-people of Chicago swore not to forget how, as they saw it, The Rev. Martin Luther King and the Chicago Freedom Movement, under the protection of Mayor Daley's police force, ran roughshod over their front lawns. Mayor Daley did everything within his power to prevent the open housing demonstrations, but he and the other...
...plea was as old as justice itself. You have the wrong man, argued Timothy Evans, who was charged with strangling his wife and infant daughter. The real killer, he swore, was the prosecution's chief witness, John Christie. Neither judge nor jury was impressed, and in 1950 Evans was hanged in a London prison...