Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mozart rather than the showier romantic pieces that appeal to most young pianists, and he developed a style marked by poise, serenity and the avoidance of bravura for bravura's sake. "Of late we have heard a good many pianists who came to us with enormous reputations sworn to on a stack of phonograph records," wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang. "I would not trade this young man for the whole slew of them...
...last-ditch action, Southerners charged in eight hours of debate that Sobeloff, who argued the Federal Government's position on ways to implement school desegregation, would be "offensive" to the Maryland-to-South Carolina belt comprising the Fourth Circuit. At week's end, Sobeloff was sworn in as a federal judge...
Hollywood snickered. "Act?" sneered one of Marilyn's directors. "That blonde can't act her way out of a Whirlpool bra." Cocktail parties were convulsed with the news that Marilyn was holed up in Manhattan with the entire Modern Library, and had sworn she would not unlock the door until she was cultured. The rumors began to get wilder. Marilyn had been admitted to the Actors Studio, and was studying the deep-dish Stanislavsky Method. She wanted to play Grushenka in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov...
...began as a routine murder trial. Dour Mrs. Charlotte Black, 63, a big, thin-lipped woman with square-lensed spectacles, stood accused in Santa Rosa, Calif, of pumping three bullets into the head of her husband Martin, 67. But hardly had the jury been sworn in when the case became a cause. Counsel for the defense told the court that Mrs. Black waived her right to a public trial. Judge Donald Geary promptly ordered spectators out. A lone newsman, Don Engdahl...
...needs a new lift to face a changing world. It may not be the best combination of nations for its new tasks, but it is the only cluster of Western powers that has real meaning for the European public: it represents to Europeans the one place where they have sworn their vows of fealty to the West, and, just as important, the one place where the U.S. has by solemn treaty pledged to them its strength and support...