Word: swearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oxford University's Independent Member Alan Patrick Herbert turned the trick in 1935. With his back-bench seat scarcely two days warm, he bounced up brandishing a bill "to reform the indecent, hypocritical, cruel, and unjust marriage laws of this country." Said Herbert heatedly: "I swear it shall be passed before this Parliament is over...
Under California's constitution, said the court, all state employees (including faculty members of the university) are already required to swear allegiance to both state and nation. "We conclude that the people of California intended . . . that that pledge is the highest loyalty that can be demonstrated by any citizen, and that the exacting of any other test of loyalty would be anti-ethical to our fundamental concept of freedom...
...from his duties as an excuse for election of a new diocesan administrator. The Reds packed the chapter with docile priests and Stehlik was elected capitular Vicar of Prague. Presiding at the election was Bishop Antonin Eltschkner, auxiliary to Beran. A year ago, Eltschkner was the first bishop to swear loyalty to the Prague regime. Although the Vatican did not forbid such oaths, the fact was that Eltschkner gave the Communists a tremendous boost...
...howitzers are still the standard weapons of U.S. division artillery. The high-velocity 90-mm. tank gun is tops at lashing shells point-blank into enemy-held caves or tunnels. Some infantrymen swear by the twin 40-mm. antiaircraft gun, mounted on a halftrack. Said one colonel: "They're just ideal for those Korean hills-they go over them like a vacuum cleaner...
...their own I.Q.s look better by comparison. Soon they were showing the objectivity of professionals. When Punch, the gangster, gave a test to Al Capone,† he told the sulking big shot: "You didn't do so good last time, Al, so we gotta run it again. I swear to hell I don't see how you get nowhere with a I.Q. like that...