Word: swore
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...current and former officials of the Clinton Administration who raised their right hands and swore to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, last Friday was supposed to be an end, not a beginning. They had already been interviewed by federal attorneys, testified to a grand jury, told their stories to a government ethics board and explained their actions to the White House counsel. In every instance, they had been cleared of wrongdoing. As they completed their disjointed testimonies in congressional hearings last week, senior White House officials were relieved to have put the half-year of scrutiny...
...night at the officers' club before he left, Meyer swore to a fellow officer that he had "buddies waiting to fly with her" and that Hansen "would get hers." This threat was reported to Hansen's superiors but ignored. Despite some ostracism, Hansen maintained passing grades -- 3.0 out of a possible 4.0 in all phases of training -- with some flyers giving her rave reviews like "one of the best boost-off approaches I've seen." Her final flight, however, was with a captain who had previously chewed her out. Her average fell to 2.997, and she was bounced in March...
Even as victorious Tutsi-led rebels swore in moderate Hutu as President and Prime Minister today, the former Hutu rulers tried to set up a government-in-exile in Goma, where 1 million refugees are encamped. "They brought all their money with them," says Purvis -- as well as arms now stockpiled near the border. U.S. refugee officials are openly worrying about reinvasion, he says, but the former government is "in such disarray right now that I don't think it's likely...
...laborers, and those who stayed still suffer discrimination. In the 1950s and '60s, many believed that Kim Il Sung's North Korea, which was faring better than the chaotic South, was the best bet for Korea's future. About 40% of the 600,000 Koreans who stayed in Japan swore allegiance to Chongryun -- and Kim -- as the defenders of Korean interests...
...down. For in the subatomic world, the top was, scientists believed, the sixth and last of the quarks -- pointlike particles that constitute the basic building blocks of matter. As the years passed, failure to find the top became a source of consternation and potential embarrassment to the theorists who swore it must exist...