Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conventional congratulations for the winner-but they did not come. Boiling was frankly bitter in conceding to Oklahoma's Carl Albert, the party whip for the last seven years, the leader's post being vacated by Massachusetts' Representative John McCormack, who was already all but sworn in as Speaker...
...Lisbon, a sentry at the 3rd Infantry Regiment barracks was roused by the approach of four automobiles. Recognizing three of his own regimental officers, he waved the cars inside the gate. But the cars also carried a score of workers from Lisbon's suburb of Almada, and such sworn foes of the Salazar regime as ex-Army Captain João Varela Gomes and Manuel Serra, former head of the Catholic youth movement...
After being sworn in for the new team, Mayor Crane issued a statement thanking the Council "for the honor of being elected to the third term." He cited urban renewal, traffic, and town and gown relations as some of the main problems facing the city...
...trial begins on the highest moral and forensic planes with a charge that Germany's judges, under political duress, destroyed the heritage of law that they were sworn to defend. But in short order the script stoops to conquer the attention with a long, clinically detailed and (for all legal and dramatic purposes) pointless discussion of sexual sterilization in the Third Reich. Next comes the prurient account of an episode in which an elderly Jew, accused of committing Rassenschande (race shame) with a 16-year-old "Aryan'' girl, is legally murdered by a German judge. Finally...
...delegates-all followers of dialectical materialism, all sworn enemies of "superstition" and the supernatural-respectfully listened to the message from the spirit world. Even the Georgians, who had been so proud of their native son that when Stalin was first criticized in 1956 they had erupted in protest riots, now joined in his condemnation...