Word: swore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just an ordinary day. Mom was at the store, taking back a party dress she swore she had never once put on (it was only slightly stained with lipstick). Sister, browsing in the Teen Scene department, was staring with fascination at a pair of earrings she might just forget to pay for, if no one was going to be looking too hard. Sonny was in school, doing pretty well on a math test by dint of some judicious copying from a friend's paper. And Dad was busy at the office, adding a few fictitious lunches to his expense...
...honor guard stood at saber-stiff attention and a 19-gun artillery salute boomed across the grassy Pentagon Mall, Army Chief of Staff Harold K. Johnson last week swore in Sergeant Major William O. Wooldridge, 43, as the highest-ranking enlisted man in the 191-year history of the U.S. Army. Wooldridge, who became the first noncom to hold the new rank of Sergeant Major of the Army (the Marines have had a comparable corps-wide post since 1957) will serve in effect as the G.I.'s generalissimo. Acting as both the soldier...
Sklar wrote his last play in 1946 and swore he'd never write another. But, says the program, he found the subject so provocative ("it simply demanded this form") that he set to work dramatizing the murders of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner...
Wait For Santa Claus. One possibility was Charles F. Lowe, who is Carol Channing's husband, manager and sometime producer. In pretrial hearings, Sparger swore that he had met Lowe only casually, had spoken on the phone with him at most twice, and had not "received any money from Mr. Lowe for any purpose." Double checking, Nielsen detectives got two depositions to the contrary. The first, from Bell Telephone companies, revealed that Sparger and Lowe had recently exchanged not two but at least 40 calls. The second, from a woman teller at Oklahoma City's Liberty National Bank...
...almost the same hour of the morning that the Dominican Republic inaugurated its new President last week, tiny, tumultuous Guatemala swore in a new top man of its own. Installed as its 21st President Julio César Méndez Montenegro, 50, a left-of-center former law professor who succeeds the 39-month-old military regime of General Enrique Peralta Azurdia...