Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is far from asking for the cross bussing of white and Negro students that the Committee has sworn it will prevent, and far from touching the majority of the estimated 24,000 Negro students in Boston's classrooms...
...price of a suicide pact, and the pair drive into a nearby river. Frantz's tape-recorded voice goes on sermonizing in the library: "The century might have been a good one, had not man been watched from time immemorial by the cruel enemy who had sworn to destroy him, that hairless, evil, flesh-eating beast -man himself...
Indira Gandhi had promised that she would follow the same policies as her predecessor, and last week, as she was sworn in as India's new Prime Minister, she seemed firmly on Lal Bahadur Shastri's path. Her Cabinet retained all of Shastri's key ministers, and she vowed in her inaugural broadcast that her "first duty" would be the same as Shastri's: to find more food for India's 480 million people, who face famine in the months ahead...
Jumna. Then she will return to Delhi, where she and her Cabinet will be sworn into office. The ministerial line up will probably remain much the same as it was under Shastri; no shakeups are likely to occur until after next year's national elections...
...malfeasance. Last week the Georgia house of representatives refused to seat one of its newly elected members for quite a different and unusual reason: his opposition to U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam war. While seven other Negroes-the first to sit in the Georgia house since 1907-were sworn in and seated, Julian Bond, 26, a handsome and articulate Atlanta Negro, was denied his seat by a 184 to 12 vote of the house...