Word: swore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People no longer hesitate to confess that they simply do not like to drive-an admission that would have been treated as an aberration a few years ago. Some former auto commuters like Pulitzer-Prizewinning Cartoonist Herblock explain that they swore off the gas when they realized that they were incurably bad drivers. "I was just too tense or too relaxed to drive well," says Herblock (real name: Herbert Block), whose cartoons occasionally picture autos as demented beasts. Who could be censured for preferring the luxury of a chauffeured limousine, particularly if someone else is footing the bill...
...invaders and the sodomizing of a third. This sight encouraged the leader of the Greater London Council, Sir Horace Cutler, to send down telegraphic thunderbolts about the renewal of the National's subsidy. Censor-without-Portfolio Mary Whitehouse read about-but did not see-The Romans, and immediately swore out a complaint. Scotland Yard's Obscene Publications Squad was sent to investigate. The battle was joined...
...defeat, Carter will probably cease almost at once to be a political force. One night last month, he swore: "This is my last campaign, the last political race I will ever run." A book based on the meticulous diary he kept during his White House years probably will occupy him, along with plans for a presidential library, probably in Atlanta. He may emerge now and then to pay off old political debts-to Fritz Mondale, for example-but as one Eastern Democratic leader says, "As far as the party is concerned, Carter will disappear like...
...They said they got permission, and when the foremen swore they didn't, they didn't want to go to arbitration, because the facts were stacked against them," Powers says. "Instead, the union changed its position in mid-stream, saying they didn't need permission to attend the meetings," he adds...
When Evren and the other four members of the ruling National Security Council took the oath of office, they chose not to swear on the Koran or any other holy book. Instead, to underscore the secular nature of the Turkish state, they swore on their honor and invoked the name of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey...