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...story was that in 1944, when Chapin was at work on a secret atomic process at the University of Chicago, Hiskey arranged for him to meet Adams. Hiskey had described Adams as a Russian agent. The meeting took place but Chapin got cold feet. He told the committee under oath that he passed no secrets...
Burges Johnson is dissatisfied with American profanity and hopes for an enrichment of all its forms: the oath denunciatory, the oath asseverative, the oath interjectional, the malediction. His argument is a little too mechanically playful, but it is well illustrated and has some grains of sense. Henry L. Mencken (The American Language) contributes an approving foreword, remarking, among other things, that...
...days). "When this strike is finished," he cried, "we will be out of business or they [the shipowners] will be out of business." The shipowners replied that they would never sign a contract with a union whose officers have not signed the Taft-Hartley Act's non-Communist oath-which. Red-liner Bridges has refused...
Communism-U.S. Brand, an ambitious hour-long documentary networked by ABC one night this week, led off with this shocker from the U.S. Communist Party's oath of allegiance, never wavered from its main theme: "The evidence will be ours, the conclusions must be yours...
...section as Green-pernt [TIME, June 21]. I knew McGuinness well . . . and I never once heard him or anyone else from Greenpoint mispronounce the section's name. . .It is perfectly true that New Yorkers often render "oi" as "er," and vice versa, but I can swear under oath that Greenpoint is called Greenpernt only by people from Coney Island, Croton-on-Hudson and Beverly Hills...