Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words were spoken by Hugh Joseph Addonizio in 1961 when he returned from 14 years as a Democratic Congressman and was sworn in as mayor of Newark, N.J. His ambitions for Newark were as commendable as they were formidable. Lying across the Hudson River in sight of Manhattan's towers, Newark is a grimy, sprawling industrial ghetto, heir in full measure to nearly every urban malady of modern America. Its rich are few, its poor numerous, its population of 405,000 nearly equally and often acrimoniously divided between black and white. The miasma of the oil refineries...
...loopholes were deliberately allowed to stay open, authorities admit. Federal Reserve officials feared that if they had closed every gap in the regulations, some banks might have failed. In a banking system based on confidence, that might have touched off a financial panic, something that the Federal Reserve is sworn to prevent. Still, Board Chairman Bill Martin admitted to Congress that the "safety valve" had become "an escape hatch through which restraints are being avoided." The banks also flooded the country with new credit cards, which stimulated consumer spending and certainly did not reduce
When he appears in his own Broadway comedy (Play It Again, Sam) or his own film (Take the Money and Run), Allen fleshes out the jittery image of Everymanic-depressive. Inanimate objects become his sworn enemies, paranoia reigns and everyone becomes a Woody worshiper. But Don't Drink the Water is minus the man-as adapter and actor-and the result is the lesser half of a situation comedy...
...Hiller has sworn not to use any too-artsy techniques, like the slow motion in Goodbye Columbus as Ali bounds toward the river for a swim one balmy evening. Altogether, Hiller impressed me as the most intelligent person around. He strolled up and down the ice in his huge grey-green parka, looking out from the fur with deep brown monkey-wise eyes in a face that does not look so much lined or aged as well-used...
...expected, the meet ended soon thereafter. Army finally won the freestyle relay for its only victory of the day, and the Cadets could smile. In his eagerness, however. Army's last man had gone in too early, so the team lost the relay, too. You could have sworn you were at B. C. when the crowd applauded the announcement...