Word: swore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President often contradicts himself. I have also observed signs of age occurring over and over again in others of my years: poor memory, incessant talking, stubbornness, intolerance of young people's ideas, slowness, and the habit of comparing all events with what happened 50 years ago. I swore it would not happen to me and retired at 69. Reagan's age is a factor, and should not be ignored...
...After 21 months of marriage (her second, his sixth), brunette Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor told the judge about life with her clarinet-tooting husband, Artie Shaw. In 31 pages of searing affidavit, Kathleen swore that Artie had screamed at her, beaten her, come home "drunken, abusive, and belligerent." He had also tried out on her his favorite theory of domestic relations ("The only way to keep a woman in line-be a caveman"). "He boasted of having thrown Lana Turner [Mrs. Shaw No. 3] down a flight of stairs, and said that it improved their marriage considerably. He told...
Their broadcast and the brief public demonstrations that followed underscored the precariousness of Ríos Montt's authority. Acknowledging that frailty, the government swore in an electoral tribunal to prepare for constitutional assembly elections, probably to be held in July...
...perceived as a threat to neighboring Sudan. Reagan decided this was a timely moment for temporary exercises; the visit of the AWACS would silently, but eloquently, reassure U.S. allies and chasten Gaddafi. Moreover, the Nimitz and its planes have entered neither Libyan waters nor disputed airspace. If they do, swore a typically bellicose Gaddafi, the waters will become a "red gulf of blood...
...small one. Consistency in public life. Consistency in private. The consistency of principle, of philosophy, habit, appearance, of behavior toward subordinates, lovers and friends. To know where a leader stands is a major test of his leadership. That, and to measure where someone stands against the spot he swore to stand on, so as to determine if the person is dependable, reliable. Banks and dogs share this virtue...