Word: swearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctors and officials in the Hygiene Department swear by Murphy, and when necessary, Murphy swears at them, as well as his wounded subjects. Usually, his frankness gets results, as in the classic case of the Brooklyn Englishman who injured his shoulder slightly in a house football game...
...Asked about TIME, Cohn replied: "With us, TIME is a swear word...
...Loyalty, the Attorney-General's list of subversive organizations has become one of the prime standards of fitness in all types of employment. One student we know confronted it when he applied for a summer job driving a truck for an ice company. Others have had to swear disaffiliation from its groups for camp, laboratory and stenographic jobs...
...truck reached its destination, all four Kikuyu were dead. It was said that they had "tried to escape." None of the four was armed. Kikuyu (including at least one woman) have also been shot dead "while trying to wrest a Sten gun from a guard"-although the settlers all swear the Kikuyu are a cowardly, not a desperately suicidal, people. Stray Kikuyu picked up by the commandos in the forests (called jungilis), who may or may not be working with Mau Mau gangs, are asked for information. They are seldom prepared to talk...
Brown, prominent theatre critic and chairman of the committee set up last year to investigate the possibility of a theatre at Harvard, said, "There's not a nickel in the till right now. But I swear this is not an abandoned cause...