Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Railway Labor Executives Association. Not once has he hung his hat in the office set aside for him by Mobilizer Charlie Wilson. Fortnight ago, Harrison got around at last to doing something about his new responsibility. He stopped by for a chat with Wilson, and asked to be formally sworn in. That didn't mean he was now ready to work. After the oath he said that he was about to take off for Europe to attend a labor conference, would not be available for duty until the end of July...
...last 37 years has driven and inspired more than 50,000 students to mastering their basic economics. A fierce and spluttery lecturer, "the Doc" was also a pushover for bad puns ("The man who invented spaghetti used the noodle"), an authority on "aids to lazy gardening," the sworn enemy of coeds who powdered their noses in class and of graduate students who married girls without money ("I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry...
...Coast Guard anti-Communist screening program, which was "cooked up by sworn, enemies of this union ... to finger militant trade unionists and bar them from commercial jobs...
...inherited $650,000 from his mother. Under ordinary circumstances, he might well have kissed his fingers and done a buck & wing. But Alexander Ector Orr Munsell was forced to remember something: 18 years ago, finding himself with a million dollars, he had given it all away, and he had sworn he never wanted anything to do with money again...
When the policeman found Mrs. Dorothy Mae ("Johnny") Stevens, 23, lying in a Chicago alley at 7:45 a.m., the temperature was eleven below, and Johnny was apparently dead. Her body seemed as hard as a rock. Said the cop: "I could have sworn she was dead except all of a sudden she groaned...