Word: swore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep TIME's choice under tight wraps, we swore Jolna and the members of his unit to secrecy. They quietly came and went from an unmarked office two floors above the bustling CNN newsroom that was cryptically known around the network as Edit Booth X. "Occasionally, CNN colleagues not involved with the program would ask me to whisper who it was," Jolna says, smiling. "I would mutter that it was a sports figure, or something like that, and they would walk away scratching their heads...
...Pledge," said a consultant who provided advice at the time. But Dukakis and Estrich insisted on ignoring the mounting attacks. Instead of taking the fight to Bush, Dukakis spent precious days in distant corners of Massachusetts playing Governor. He announced a $200,000 local grant, visited an apple orchard, swore in a probate-court judge. He seemed strangely detached, almost fearful of taking the plunge. His staff was worried...
...voices demanding attention, explaining themselves, complaining about the way the world has treated them. "Man has no more freedom than a bedbug," insists one. "In this respect, Spinoza was right." Another tells how jealousy drove him crazy: "I now hated all women. Lifting my hands to heaven, I swore never to marry." The narrator asks, "Did you keep your word?" The laconic response: "I have six grandchildren." Singer's people seldom shy away from expounding on the mysteries of existence: "People often say that one cannot understand the ways of the Almighty. Yet the ways of human beings...
...Olympic Committee is so worried that even before the Games were done, it appointed a blue-ribbon commission to look into the matter. The chairman? None other than Mr. Yankee himself, George Steinbrenner, well-known master of the art of eliciting top performances from athletes. Steinbrenner promptly swore to "tell it like...
...equally faulted. Without flatly rejecting Reagan's repeated assertions that he knew nothing of the diversion of Iranian profits to the contras, the majority report says that issue is unresolved. Thus it indirectly questions the credibility of former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who swore that he approved the diversion and intentionally did not inform the President...