Word: swore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theater. But opposition groups outside Iran accused SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, of setting the blaze in order to provoke a backlash against dissident groups. Many Iranians, however, blamed Ayatullah Khomeini, a Shi'ite mullah (religious leader) who has lived in exile in Iraq since 1963. Khomeini swore unrelenting enmity to the Shah after hundreds of his followers were killed while protesting the monarch's land-reform program. Alone among Shi'ite leaders, Khomeini failed to condemn the Abadan atrocity...
...determined to improve his nation's economy. He was intent on improving the military as well. After the inauguration, the new President kept Vance and Young waiting while he purged the top level of the armed forces. Ousting most of the Balaguer partisans, Guzmán swore in a new set of military chiefs, none of whom had been advised in advance of the change...
...doesn't wear the waist-long hair he dragged through those Nixon war upheaval years, and his tie dye shirts are fading in the closet, but Carlin still feels a little bit of the rebel in him. Carlin swore out at the world through his albums when they first started selling (he has now cut six); but in 1978, almost everyone has heard his "Seven Words" and his more innocuous skits on the Johnny Carson show...
After nine phone calls, MacArthur located in the labyrinth of the Department of Energy (DOE) a harassed man with, he swore, 3,999 other dams to worry about. He informed MacArthur that he might have become eligible for a loan by conducting something called a feasibility study, if only the wall had collapsed two months before. Now-too bad-the deadline for feasibility studies had passed...
...Indianapolis Star started investigating. When Gilman refused to tell them his special deputies' names, the Star began referring to them as his "secret police." In response, Gilman revoked all the special deputies' powers. Said County Prosecutor James Kelley: "It was immature and childish." Gilman eventually reconsidered and swore in 73 new deputies and reinstated 450 others. He also made public all of his deputies' names...