Word: sworn
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McNaughton and his wife Sally, 46, were in the Blue Ridge resort area to pick up their son Theodore, 11, at a nearby camp. A former Harvard law professor and one of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's "whiz kids" in 1961, McNaughton was to have been sworn in as Navy Secretary this week...
Aside from the approval of the King, the first thing Greece's new military rulers sought was the blessing of the Greek Orthodox Church. Premier Constantine Kollias and the chief Ministers were sworn into office by Chrysostomos, the Primate of Greece, and one of the new government's first decrees was an order solemnly commanding Greece's young people to attend church. Last week the junta's reforming zeal turned on the church itself. With a curt de cree, the government dismissed the 86-year-old Chrysostomos and the twelve bishops of the Holy Synod...
...series of bright sight gags, she dashes between wheels and fenders, rescuing children, husband, and finally her mother-in-law's shoe-only to find that the store she is seeking is back where she started from. Wearily she sits down, preparing to face her sworn enemy, traffic, once more. The camera lingers lovingly on her face-humorous, furious, infinitely attractive, and altogether Italian...
Alabama-born and bred, Johnson could not be more sensitive to his state's cherished traditions and prejudices. His courtroom in Montgomery is only seven blocks from the statehouse, where a band played Dixie while Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate Presi- dent, and where
...Symbolic and supernatural fables, masterpieces of the form, they help to explain why Agnon has been compared to Kafka. In Betrothed, the heroine Susan suddenly appears before the hero, a young scientist on the threshold of a brilliant career, to remind him of the vows of fidelity they had sworn as children. Susan is the past: alluring, insistent; and the compulsion she represents is as enduring as mankind's yearning for its departed youth. Agnon does not solve the dilemma any more than life does. He ends by planting doubts about Susan's reality. Did the past, once...