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Word: swears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prosecution witnesses swore that they saw Mitchell standing at the ditch, and that they heard rifle fire. But neither could swear that they saw Mitchell shoot anyone. The third, Radioman Charles Sledge, said he was "positive" he saw Mitchell firing at the civilians. Mitchell's civilian defense attorney, Ossie B. Brown, discredited Sledge's account, quoting testimony Sledge gave to Army investigators: "I believe it was Sgt. Mitchell firing into the ditch." The testimony of a prosecution witness, Dennis Conti, was weakened when fellow Army witnesses swore that they had heard Conti declare: "He [Mitchell] tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: One Not Guilty for My Lai | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...skirts and matching white chogori (blouses), and the men were dressed mainly in flannel suits. Resplendent on the platform in front of them stood Master Sun Myung Moon and his wife in golden robes and glistening crowns. As two thousand curious spectators looked on, Master Moon intoned: "Will you swear to love your spouse forever?" The 1,582 men and women responded: "Ye" (Korean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Mass Matrimony in Seoul | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

...swear on the wet head

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Cabarets Jacques Brel Is Alive, And, Well, He's Living in a Ballroom At the Somerset Hotel | 10/24/1970 | See Source »

Ryan, who said he will conduct his own defense in court, expressed doubt that Pusey or the other officials would answer the subpoenas. "I don't think they have the nerve to show up in front of students where they have to swear to tell the truth," he said...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Pusey Is Subpoenaed to Testify At Ryan's Trespass Trial Oct. 30 | 10/22/1970 | See Source »

...first contact between the two men, Pusey said, came when Pusey asked him and Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.) to sponsor a bill repealing a controversial provision of the National Defense Education Act which required teachers and professors to swear a loyalty oath and sign an affidavit affirming their loyalty...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Thoughts of Kennedy: I Pusey Remembers John F. Kennedy, Found Him 'Naive' in the Beginning | 10/7/1970 | See Source »

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