Word: swore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ACHIEVING FAME. I wanted it very much, but when I started playing leading parts in London, I wasn't popular at first. I swore to myself, "When I am popular I shall be so gracious to everybody. I will sit at the steps of the stage door saying, 'My people, how I love you. There are only 300 here? I can sign all the autographs. Some of you go off and have a drink, and then come back.' " But when I became popular, I wasn't like that at all. I'd take one horrified...
Terry, you swore we'd live forever...
...Frost-Nixon deal carries Watergate checkbook journalism to its greatest extreme to date. After the tempest triggered by its deal with Convicted Felon Haldeman, CBS swore off buying news and thus declined to bid for Nixon. Frost argues that since Nixon is out of office, the interviews are not news but a memoir and therefore immune to the checkbook charge. "There is no reason," Frost told TIME Correspondent Lawrence Malkin in London last week, "why Nixon shouldn't make money from this memoir as other former Presidents have done...
...trial -had approved and even joined the coup. Moreover, Premier Caramanlis himself had tacitly accepted the junta's legitimacy. It was the junta that summoned Caramanlis back to Greece to form a new government last year, and it was a President appointed by the colonels, Phaedon Gizikis, who swore in Caramanlis as Premier. Evidence that the colonels had set up a legal government was unexpectedly reinforced by testimony of a prosecution witness. Panayotis Kanellopoulos, the Premier from whom the colonels took power, stated at the trial that no less a figure than former King Constantine had legitimatized the junta...
...machine-gun point by junta soldiers and taken to the monarch in 1967. He urged the King, who was also commander in chief of the armed forces, to order loyal officers to crush the colonels' rebellion. The weak and inexperienced Constantine, then 27, refused, fearing bloodshed. Instead, he swore the colonels into office...