Word: swore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Holmes, the senior aide, swore that no logs were kept to record Hughes' movements. Ray Crawford, a key aide until 1970, said detailed accounts were kept. Holmes testified that Hughes wore a neat Vandyke. Crawford describes Hughes as having a long, scraggly beard and hair that reached below his shoulders...
...this isle are in wonderful tribulation ... A girl cannot step into the bushes to pluck a rose without running the most imminent risk of being ravished." Staten Island's 400 militiamen, who had been called up by Washington to defend the island, grounded their muskets and obligingly swore allegiance to the Crown. That oath was administered by New York's newly returned Royal Governor William Tryon, who had to spend recent months in the sanctuary of the British ship the Duchess of Gordon...
...drunk and Pablo cut his arm and my arm and symbolically mixed our blood, a bit theatrical but it seemed appropriate at the time. We parted on a darkened street corner just before the curfew and swore we would see each other again...
Both Nesson and Halperin refused to comment yesterday on reports that Nixon swore in a deposition last month that Kissinger had been incorrect in stating he ordered the taps at the President's request...
After a while, Adele wrote her father that she and Pinson had been married and became even more desperate to make her fantasy real. She considered hiring a mesmerist to hypnotize Pinson into submission. She swore she was pregnant, and appeared in front of Pinson and his men with a pillow tucked under her dress, holding out handfuls of money. To avoid further scandal, Pinson was posted to Barbados...