Word: forsworn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band of 75 Sons, led by six naked men and a naked woman, crowded into the home of John Lebidoff, an orthodox Doukhobor, and set it afire. Sorrowfully, he submitted, because, like all Doukhobors, he has forsworn violence even in defense of his rights. At Nelson, another orthodox Dcukhobor, Peter Reiben. was warned that his house was to be burned. While he sat up at night to guard it, his haystacks and barns were set ablaze. An orthodox Doukhobor community house at Shoreacres was fired at midday by nearly 100 fanatics, who stripped and paraded...
...mood of Marshall Field's Chicago Sun, which had forsworn preachy crusades for homely human interest news, the story was a Page One natural. It was about a man and a dog. What made it even better, the man was the Sun's archrival, Tribune Publisher Robert R. McCormick. Colonel McCormick had taken his German shepherd, Lotta, to a suburban kennel to have a thorn removed from her left front paw, and Lotta had run away...
...funneling off process was reflected in empty bakeries and idle flour mills. The U.S. had forsworn rationing. It could not undertake to fight world famine without giving up something. Bare shelves were often more persuasive than conscience...
Question of Self-Respect. Harold Ickes then held a spectacular press conference in the Interior Department's auditorium. His aides, newsmen, photographers and radiomen with recording apparatus swarmed in. In his crusty old voice he made his position doubly clear -either "I had forsworn myself and made false statements under oath or someone else has." He went on the radio: "A man has to live with himself. I have to spend the rest of my life with Harold Ickes and I could no longer, much as I regret it, retain my self-respect and stay in the Cabinet...
Once, on the Senate floor, Truman had brought blushes to the faces of other Senators by a violent attack on Milligan. Only a few weeks before Franklin Roosevelt's death he had tried to block Milligan's reappointment. Senator Harry Truman had never forsworn his allegiance to his old and disreputable boss, nor his grudge against Milligan. President Truman was the same...