Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...benignly as motorists left their cars in bus stops and no-parking zones. Minor complaints were simply ignored, and traffic became badly snarled. Possibly worst of all was the damage done to the conception of law and order, as "New York's Finest" sneered at laws they were sworn to enforce...
...presidential candidates are eligible. Southern Democrats, enraged by Humphrey's attacks on Wallace during the bitter campaign, refuse to fall in behind the Minnesotan. Some cross party lines to vote for Nixon, but for days the House remains deadlocked. Thus, in accordance with the 20th Amendment, Muskie is sworn in as Acting President on Jan. 20 and serves "until a President shall have qualified"-conceivably as long as four years, if the House impasse continues...
Even as the new Premier was sworn in, Salazar, the victim of a massive stroke, clung to life. But the 79-year-old dictator had been in a coma for ten days, and his doctors had informed President Americo Deus Rodrigues Tomás that he would never recover sufficiently to resume office. Faced with a serious drift in government affairs and rumors that the military might step in, Tomás finally called on Caetano to form a government...
...such statutes are in effect in the sophisticated south, where most of the French lived. Insulting the dignity of a woman in public is a crime in the south, but not in the center, where such an act would be unthinkable anyway. In the central city of Hue, a sworn statement of innocence before the statue of Buddha serves as admissible evidence. Not in southern Saigon...
...found the mythic frame for his novel in the love, rebellion and death of an Irish soldier in the garrison of a penal colony that might have been Sydney, but was historically Port Jackson, 200 years ago. Young Halloran is a corporal and Roman Catholic who has sworn his conscript's oath to the English and Protestant King, George III. He was once destined for the priesthood, and has a Latinate and God-bedazzled turn of mind. Now he guards felons, argues theology with one, and loves another, who happens to be a servant to the chief...