Word: swore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they considered the environment and poverty the most pressing domestic problems. One mildly heartening figure: 79% thought social and political change can be brought about within the system. Increasingly, youngsters are being given a chance to participate: in a brief ceremony in Perry County, Pa., Governor Milton Shapp swore in Michael J. Simmons, 18, as a member of the five-man local draft board...
Nicolo Paganini could. According to 19th century writers, Paganini was the greatest violinist who ever lived. His fingers were like steel snakes, his bow arm a saber that sawed through unheard-of technical difficulties. During one performance, swore a Viennese listener, old Lucifer himself appeared beside Paganini, guiding his fingers. His lustrous tone sounded uncannily like the human voice-and no wonder, declared some darkly, for Paganini made his own strings out of human intestines...
...golly-gee pitch is deceiving. To the team owners who must negotiate with him, he is the original Woolf at the door. Boston Celtics General Manager Red Auerbach, for one, swore that he would never meet with a sport lawyer -until Woolf appeared with nine of the twelve Celtic players as his clients. Now, after Woolf wangled deals like a $500,000, three-year contract for Forward John Havlicek, Auerbach admits "Woolf has helped a lot of players...
Motive and Intent. The prosecution had centered that case on the testimony of three police undercover agents, who swore that the Panthers conspired to bomb police stations and Manhattan stores. The agents were subjected to lengthy cross-examination by defense lawyers and evidently failed to persuade the jury that the plot ever passed beyond the theoretical stage...
...home in the Cairo suburb of Manshiet al Bakri. He was preparing to go to an Arab summit in Rabat, and he had spent all night reading intelligence estimates about a supposed assassination plot against him. Nasser figured that he ought to have a Vice President and swore Sadat in on the spot. Less than ten months later, the man who had announced the success of Nasser's 1952 revolution was called upon to tell the Egyptian people that their beloved El Rais (The Boss) was dead. Shortly afterward, Sadat was sworn in as the third President in Egypt...