Word: swore
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Long became assistant majority leader in 1965, but his stewardship was erratic because of drinking and marital problems, and Ted Kennedy ousted him in 1969. Soon after, he remarried, swore off the bottle and has been back at his eloquent best ever since. Using rhyme to reason, he coined a popular Senate witticism: "Don't tax you, don't tax me; tax that fellow behind the tree." Younger Senators learned to fear the wily negotiator, and on the morning after the 1980 election, when Democrats had lost control of the Senate, Robert Dole, Long's successor to the chairmanship, quipped...
...Americans planned their weekend, Super Bowl XIX in Palo Alto, Calif. For a very few, those plans called for the near impossible: live attendance at both the game and the Flipper's swearing-in ceremony in Washington Monday morning. Congressman and former Buffalo Bills Quarterback Jack Kemp, for one, swore he could make it back to Washington aboard a "red- eye" airline flight. ABC News and Sports Chief Roone Arledge, overseeing his network's first Super Bowl telecast, lined up a corporate jet for an overnight trip to Washington, where he planned to direct the network's Inauguration coverage...
...Gandhi's dynastic ambitions for her son were thus fulfilled with astonishing ease. President Zail Singh, a Sikh, swore in Rajiv as the head of a small, five-member Cabinet with the full support of the Congress (I) Party. Mrs. Gandhi had been grooming Rajiv for leadership ever since the death four years ago of her younger son Sanjay. At that time, Rajiv, who had been a pilot for Indian Airlines, the country's domestic carrier, reluctantly took on the task of becoming his mother's heir apparent. Even before he returned to New Delhi, party leaders, including Finance Minister...
...swore coming off the field list time. I'd come back two years ago and make up for it," says Harvard senior tackle Roger Caron, one of only four Crimson players who were there two years ago and will be bad today...
...report on the Washington social circuit. She enjoyed "that nice, healthy vulgarity" of the Lyndon Johnson regime, particularly when L.B.J. invited her and several other women reporters at a White House party to come upstairs. "We stayed for two hours, eating popcorn from a silver bowl, while he swore he had never wanted to be President...