Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young doctors who read the ad in medical journals last week thumbed fruitlessly through their atlases and then asked the Woodward Bureau for more details. Sworn to secrecy about the monarch and country involved, the bureau could only give a few tantalizing hints...
After twelve weeks of training, Peter Forrestal, 21, son of the late Secretary of Defense, was sworn in as an ensign at the United States Naval Station, Long Beach, Calif...
...clerk then called all witnesses for both sides to rise and be sworn in Some 40 student and 16 policemen stood up, and the judge's face fell. He pushed for haste all during the rest of the proceedings...
...Valley, Hobe Sound (Fla.), Sun Valley and Paris. But he is possessed with a patrician's best instinct for public service, decency and generosity. As adviser, errand boy and global troubleshooter for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, he has always been selfless, tireless-and available. When he was sworn in for his present job as director of the Mutual Security Administration, Presidential Secretary Matt Connelly quipped: "Averell, isn't this the eighth time you've been sworn in? It's about time you learned to hold...
...dread of Moses' eighth plague, which devastated the land of Egypt, ran deeper than political squabbles. In the Negev Desert, Arab Legionnaires and Jewish soldiers, sworn enemies, killed locusts side by side; quarreling India and Pakistan swapped information and coordinated plans. And in Iran, both the U.S. and Russia pitched in, lending airplanes and sprayers (Russia worried about its own adjoining Caspian provinces...