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Word: oaths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Publication Board's decision to award his group the current HARBUS franchise. This statement is absurd. As a member of the Publications Board during the period when the current franchise was let and one who participated in all board discussions concerning that decision. I will swear under oath that Mr. Stevens' color had nothing whatsoever to do with the matter...

Author: By James P. Baughman, | Title: The Mail HARBUS CORRECTION | 2/13/1970 | See Source »

...time is wartime, any time. Specifically it is the day before yesterday, during the Korean conflict. Somewhere outside Seoul, a group of Army doctors operate -in every sense of the word. Whatever rationality they possess is consumed by the disciplines of surgery. Off-duty they live by a hypocritic oath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Catch-22 Caliber | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...were chosen from among 365 who were executed between the reign of Henry VIII and the rule of Cromwell, under the Act of Supremacy of 1534. The act made it high treason to refuse the oath that accepted the King as supreme head of the Church of England, to go abroad and return as an ordained Catholic priest, or even to harbor a priest. Since no Catholic priest could be ordained in England, a steady flow of young Englishmen left the country for The Netherlands. They returned as priests in disguise to visit among known Catholic homes called "Mass houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Furor over Forty | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

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