Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...give one more example to illustrate this new and growing tendency to enforce conformity, even among self- styled moderates, recalling that if there is anything which has always been distasteful to free men in the long course of history it is a loyalty or test oath of any kind. When the Congress undertook in 1958 to require such an oath of all those who were to receive funds under the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act a number of us within the world of academe contended with some success, after repeated efforts, to have this requirement removed...
...husband recalled an oath he took when a classmate was killed at 11 a.m. on the day of the World War I armistice. Eliot said the death occurred because a needless front-line charge was ordered. "I swore that day I would do my best to oppose nationalism and war." He denounced "this extraordinary arrogance of so many Americans who think that what they think is right is automatically right...
Byrd's explanation was philosophical. Virginia's Democratic state central committee is requiring party candidates to sign a loyalty oath that binds them to support all Democrats running in the next election. Byrd argued that the rule would force him to support men he did not know. Vowing that he "would rather be a free man than a captive Senator," he defected...
...defendants and two other witnesses testified under oath that they heard Graham say at the earlier District Court trial. "People were speaking in a level tone of voice louder than a whisper but less than a shout, but at that hour even a whisper disturbs the peace...
...Vatican last week announced that all Catholic priests would henceforth be asked to make an annual public affirmation of their vows of celibacy and obedience. The day chosen for this oath was Holy Thursday?the feast day that, in Roman Catholic theology, commemorates Christ's founding of the priesthood. Obliquely, the decree was yet another negative answer from Rome to the Dutch Pastoral Council (TIME, Jan. 19), which last month advocated optional celibacy for priests. On a deeper level, the proposal was a nervous, defensive papal response to a more enduring crisis: the most notable mass defection of priests...