Word: swearing
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...swear by Apollo the physician and by Aesculapius, Hygeia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses . . ." Beginning with these words, budding doctors for centuries have solemnly taken the ponderous Hippocratic oath-upon graduation. Modern physicians still pledge themselves to "keep [this oath] according to my ability and my judgment...
...Uproot Communism. Members of Nguyen Van Tin's league have to take an oath of allegiance and swear "to search energetically day and night for the means to uproot Communism." Two hundred men of Bai Trang have taken this oath. A hundred and fifty of them are used to protect the village against Communist night raids. Of these, 90 have only clubs and knives, 40 have rifles given by the French, and 20 have sporting rifles bought out of village funds...
...Julien Lahaut, white-maned president of the Belgian Communist Party. His shocked fellow deputies (who wanted to get rid of Leopold, not of the monarchy) broke into hurried applause for Baudouin. The prince blushed furiously, his eyes downcast. Finally order was restored and Baudouin managed to say: "I swear to observe the constitution and the laws of the Belgian people...
...week, Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois denounced such stories as "almost criminal." Majority Leader Lucas called on President Truman to ask the press to impose self-censorship at once, or face a Government censorship. In Lucas' home state, the Chicago Sun-Times made a Page One pledge to swear off news of troop departures, names of vessels, and destinations, except in official announcements...
...oath replaced an April, 1949 resolution of the state legislature, which would have empowered the presidents of state colleges to expel "all or any persons found to be disloyal to this nation." The new loyalty oath asks the signer to swear, among other things, "I am not and have not during the past two (2) years been a member or affiliated with any society or group of persons which teaches ... that the government should be overthrown or destroyed...