Word: oaths
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...chair near a big Christmas tree that curled against the ceiling. Before him last week sat three eager listeners: South Dakota's Karl Mundt, California's Richard Nixon of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the committee's retiring chief investigator, Robert Stripling. Chambers, under oath, puffed on a pipe as he gave further testimony in the Communist spy inquiry and interspersed it with his observations on the evidence already gathered...
Honor guests, including U.S. officials, bankers and businessmen flown down from the mainland, watched the ceremony and inaugural parade from a grandstand on the steps of the marble Capitol. Munoz took the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice Angel de Jesús, shook hands with the judge, exchanged a warm abrazo with retiring Governor Jesus T. Pinero. Then Muñoz spoke to his people...
...There is no reason why you should not all share this oath with me . . . It is in this way, and not by the oath and dedication of man alone . . . that the Puerto Rican people may, within the smallness of their territory, realize the greatness of their destiny...
...indictment read: "Alger Hiss . . . having duly taken an oath . . . did unlawfully, knowingly and willfully and contrary to said oath, state material matters which he did not believe to be true." There was no indictment against Chambers. One chapter of an abysmal story had come...
...Southerner in the Northern army he could expect little confidence to be placed in him. He had moreover recently stepped from a train and wrenched his back and could honestly have claimed a physical disability. He nevertheless renewed his Union oath. His sisters in Virginia turned his picture to the wall and refused to discuss...