Word: swear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou...
...town council of Brentwood, Md. two years ago. He was sworn in with an oath of office, customary in Brentwood, which contained the phrase "I believe in God." He made no objection at the time but, after thinking it over later on, decided he could not again honestly swear to the statement...
...humor is broad and some times raucous, but the sort of countrified slapstick that is amusing in Erskine Caldwell or Jesse Stuart is mildly unsettling when combined with Mrs. Arnow's delicate and sensitive prose; she seems to have forgotten that people seldom like to hear a woman swear...
...counterattackers had begun to get results. As faculty resistance mounted, the University of California Regents watered down the new loyalty oath that they had proposed. Staff members would no longer have to declare that they were not dabbling in subversive doctrine, though they would be asked to swear that they are not members of the Communist Party...
What Do You Believe? Meanwhile, the University of California's Regents suddenly decided to broaden and sharpen its loyalty oath. Henceforth, on pain of dismissal, the university's 4,000 staff members would have to swear that they had never joined, supported, or even believed in any organization that wanted to overthrow the U.S. Government...