Word: swears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always the truth? Quite often, the defendant later recants, forcing courts to determine the voluntariness of his confession. The issue becomes a "swearing contest" between the scruffy confessor and three or four detectives who swear they never coerced him. Understandably, most judges and juries prefer to believe policemen; indeed, judges overlook trickery in the squeal room that would shock them in the courtroom...
...faced bull named Vindicator. A hornless Hereford, he arrives in America well before the turn of the century, chaperoned by Maureen and plucky Juliet Mills as a well-bred English mother and daughter with some eccentric ideas about animal husbandry. Their hefty British bull is just the thing, they swear, to beef up the herds of lean longhorn cattle then prevalent in the West...
Among his fellow newspapermen, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Royal Brougham, 71, has an understandable reputation as an oddball. Who ever heard of a sportswriter teaching Sunday school? More incredible, who ever heard of a sportswriter who does not swear, smoke or drink? And who ever heard of a sportswriter who gives money away...
...added that Harvard always has more openings than it can fill for women who want jobs as secretaries, laboratory technicians, and library assistants. However, before a United States employer can give a job to an allen, he must swear before a notary that he cannot find a U.S. citizen to fill the post...
University officials claim--and Faculty members agree--that the oath is "innocuous," because unlike oaths in other states, it does not require teachers to swear that they are not or never have been members of "subversive" organizations. Yet Harvard fought this oath in the 1930's arguing then, as Bowles does today, that any requirement of an affirmation on loyalty represented a politically inspired interference with the independence of the University. By its hasty actions in this case, the University has unwittingly supported a statute that singles out teachers as a group whose loyalties are particularly suspect. Harvard has acknowledged...