Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sworn in as U.S. representative to the U.N. Trusteeship Council, which oversees such places as the Mariana Islands, Nauru and Northeast New Guinea, with the rank of ambassador...
...Attorney Joseph Hoey and a team of assistants had worked to prepare the Government's case against accused Soviet Spy Aleksandr Sokolov and his mysterious female accomplice (TIME, July 12, 1963). In Brooklyn Federal Court last week everything was ready. The jurors had taken their seats and been sworn in. Within minutes Hoey would begin his opening remarks...
...they have not lost their own sense of humor. At Goldwater's national headquarters in Washington, the faithful are cheerfully prepared to supply on request any and all good jokes they have heard about their man. For example, they offer this one about the moment when Barry gets sworn in as President. "Repeat after me," says Chief Justice Warren: "I swear to protect this nation against its enemies, foreign and domestic, so help...
Humphrey won election to the Senate that year, and no sooner had he been sworn in than he rose to lace into his Senate colleagues. "What people want," he cried, "is for the Senate to function! Sometimes I think we become so cozy-we feel so secure in our six-year term-that we forget that the people want things done...
Among the few who had already recognized that there were real gifts behind Hubert's gab was Texas' Lyndon Johnson, who had been sworn into the Senate on the same day as Humphrey. "I wish I could be that boy's trainer," Johnson once remarked of Humphrey. Now, realizing that Humphrey was ready to accept some training, Johnson sought out the Minnesotan. "Hubert," he said, "I want you to meet the people around here who count." Humphrey took to talking with Georgia's wise old Senator Walter George, who had been among the first to scorn...