Word: swearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lonely, unloved, powerless, they keep round-the-clock watch in border dugouts, alert for mischief and ready to radio their chief, Canada's Major General Eedson L. M. Burns, in case of trouble. Their cars have been burned and stoned. They have come under fire that they swear was not accidental. They have been ignored. When the Israelis staged their big El Auja raid last year, they first locked up the whole U.N. Egyptian-border team at their Beersheba headquarters. But it is from the observers' reports that General Burns has been able to judge and warn against...
...desired. Unable to get the Upper House to agree to 18 months service for conscripts and unwilling to accept a counteroffer of twelve months, Adenauer settled for a law which fails to specify how long draftees must serve but nonetheless gets the defense machinery to work. West German officials swear that they will keep their promise to have 96,000 men in uniform before the end of the year and a 500,000-man force in NATO...
When Thomas Dehler, leader of the second-largest party in Adenauer's coalition, demanded "a German foreign policy" and bilateral negotiations with the Russians, Adenauer on his sickbed could not contain himself. He dashed off a letter demanding that Dehler recant and swear allegiance to Adenauer's policy. It was an appalling political error, the first sign that the sick old man was losing his legendary political instinct. Dehler had been slipping, but faced with such a humiliating ultimatum, a majority of his party rallied to him, and deserted the coalition. Adenauer's once-massive 334-vote...
...soon as Norma Jeane could understand what was meant, she was forced by the woman of the house to promise that she would never drink or smoke or swear. At every childish annoyance, she was told that she was headed straight for hell; on every possible occasion, she was made to say her prayers, and on every Sunday morning, noon and night, and sometimes once or twice in the middle of the week, the little girl was marched away to church. At home she had to scrub the floors before she was five years old, and do the family dishes...
Last week, as the perjury case came up in Federal District Court, the Justice Department was ready with 18 witnesses from Italy to swear to Icardi's guilt. But the only two witnesses to get to the stand were two Congressmen, Missouri Republican Dewey Short and Subcommittee Chairman W. Sterling Cole, Republican of New York. Under close questioning by Icardi's defense counsel, Edward Bennett Williams, 35 (who defended Joe McCarthy during the 1954 Senate censure hearings), Chairman Cole recollected that he had discussed possible perjury proceedings against Icardi before Icardi gave his testimony to the subcommittee...