Word: swear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their tune. To get them off on the right track, he offers the testimony of Historian Jacques Barzun (who does his teaching at Columbia): "[Teachers] look like any other Americans; they are no more round-shouldered than bank presidents, they play golf . . . they marry and beget children, laugh and swear and have appendicitis in a thoroughly normal way. They are far less absent-minded than waiters in restaurants...
...prosecution hammered mercilessly at Ford until 2:35 p.m., forcing him to admit several minor points and virtually swear to three major statements--statements that two State experts tried to kneek down later in the afternoon...
...staffmen, the faculty's Academic Senate flatly refused to accept it (TIME, rune 27 et seq.). Later, the oath was toned down a little; instead of having to wear that they had never joined, supported, or even believed in a subversive organization, faculty members would simply have to swear that they were not members of the Communist Party. But after eight months, 13.5% of the faculty had still not signed. Last week the Regents issued an ultimatum: any C.P. member, they said, automatically "has violated the terms on which he is employed . . . and shall be dismissed...
Admirers of glib, arm-flailing Evangelist Dr. Billy Graham, 31, swear his voice can penetrate a case-hardened conscience like a jackhammer going through a pile of schist. Last week Dr. Billy appeared before a joint session of the Georgia legislature to urge an old-fashioned revival among the state's sinners, and within two hours the senate had passed a bill to make the state bone dry. Cried Senator Tom E. Rich, during the breast-beating which preceded a 34-to-5 vote: "I used to go home drunk and stumble over . . . my children...
...medical and dental care at Government expense, there are 132 hospitals with 55,252 beds, served by 6,755 doctors and 2,083 dentists. Almost 20 million veterans get free medical service in emergencies, or for service-connected ailments, can also get free service for other ailments if they swear that they cannot pay for it. For them there are 125 hospitals, 4,211 doctors and 884 dentists. Free care is given to 140,000 Americans in state and federal prisons, and to 335,000 Indians. Some free care is given to hundreds of thousands of employees by farsighted industrial...