Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democratic side were packed almost beyond breathing. Up in the gallery, Joan Kennedy, seated with Rose Kennedy, dabbed at her eyes with a handkerchief while Husband Teddy was sworn in. Later, Teddy announced it as his aim to stay "out of the limelight, out of the headlines and out of the swimming pool...
...chances seem slim. Southern Rhodesia's Tobacco Farmer Winston Field, 58, who was sworn in as new Prime Minister last week, intends to divide the land into three "tiers" of racially restricted areas - for whites, Africans and racially mixed families. Though Field insists that his plan is a long way from apartheid, the new black government in Northern Rhodesia will hardly be able to tell the difference. The Northern Rhodesian blacks already have threatened to sever economic ties unless Southern Rhodesia broadens its voting franchise and releases the African nationalists who have been placed under restriction. Otherwise, cried Nationalist...
...Miami chiropractor, Jerome Harold, 36, now secretary of "the Committee to Warn of the Arrival of Communist Merchandise on the Local Business Scene." Harold organized TCTWOTAOCMOTLBS more than a year ago. "It doesn't make sense to me." says he, "that we should strengthen countries whose leaders have sworn to bury us by buying their products." Actually, the U.S. last year imported $84.6 million in Communist-made goods, but exported $133.4 million in U.S. merchandise to those countries. The U.S. State Department, moreover, condones such trade, argues that it can be used as a wedge against Iron Curtain unity...
...evening, while she muses on her doorstep, a tall old tramp (Georges Wilson) strides by. She staggers back, moves as if to cry out, hesitates, stares after him bewildered. Impossible! But for an instant she could have sworn the old tramp was her husband! Next day when he comes by again she asks him in. He has a kind mouth and sad eyes that light up wonderfully when she plays Rossini on the jukebox, but something in his face suggests a damaged and diminished man. "I've lost my memory," he explains shyly. She faints. She is sure...
After a year as White House military adviser, General Maxwell Taylor, 61, was sworn in as new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A onetime proponent of a single chief for all the services, the old paratrooper now reserved his judgment. "I am not arriving," he said, "blueprint in hand as a crusader for change...