Word: oaths
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When Evren and the other four members of the ruling National Security Council took the oath of office, they chose not to swear on the Koran or any other holy book. Instead, to underscore the secular nature of the Turkish state, they swore on their honor and invoked the name of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey...
...said one middle-aged Miami woman, pressing a fat baby boy doll to her ample bosom. To enhance the illusion, all Babyland employees are required to dress as hospital staff; Roberts is the white-coated "doctor." Customers-or rather, prospective parents-must raise their right hands and take an oath to love and care for their little charges. At the Georgia plant and a branch "adoption center" in Orlando, Fla., Roberts plans eventually to produce adult dolls as well. Each will come equipped with a driver's license and birth certificate-everything but credit cards and the right...
...Stewart, 85, prolific novelist and scholar of literature, American history, forestry and meteorology who received acclaim for his "weather novels" Storm and Fire; in San Francisco. A professor of English for 38 years at the University of California at Berkeley, Stewart battled the regents over the "nonCommunist loyalty oath" required of faculty in 1950, and later documented the experience in The Year of the Oath. Also recognized as an authority on onomastics, the science of names, he noted in American Place-Names that Deathball Rock, Ore., commemorated "an unsuccessful attempt to make biscuits...
...Southern community," said the nervous, chain-smoking witness before a Senate subcommittee last week. But little was ordinary about the fact that Billy Carter had come to the ornate Senate Caucus Room, the famed site of the Teapot Dome, McCarthy and Watergate hearings. He was there to testify under oath about his controversial relations with the government of Libya. Soft-spoken and attired in a three-piece suit, he was no longer playing his old role as the Carter family clown. Indeed, in concluding a carefully crafted 27-page opening statement, he said, "I hope this testimony will show...
...reporters. He was alternately humane ("Billy is a colorful personality. I love him and he loves me"), defiant ("I don't have authority to order Billy to do something. It is not illegal for him to make a trip to Libya") and presidential ("I'm sworn by oath to uphold. . . the laws of our nation. If any member of my family should violate those laws, then I'm charged with the responsibility . . . to see that the law is carried...