Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...servicemen, in the name of Jesus Christ and in the memory of Simon Bolivar, to "fight for the domination of the Third Force until Colombians lay down their political hatreds before the national banner." They took the oath. Next afternoon, at Bogotá's Campin stadium, Rojas likewise swore in a throng of youth, labor, farm and women's groups...
...sudden that she got the moral bends. Everybody in the house was a movie extra, and the first day Norma Jeane was there they gave her whisky bottles to play with, taught her a card game and put her up to a hula dance. "They drank, they smoked, they swore," says Marilyn. "It used to keep me busy praying for them...
...warning of the power of the Hoa Hao, the piratical "religious" sect that once boasted an army of 20,000 and ruled large areas of Viet Nam as a feudal fief. The threat was characteristic of Ba Cut's fanatic life. At 17, hot-eyed Ba Cut swore he would fight to the death against the French, and he cut off the tip of his forefinger to seal his oath. At 21, he switched, began fighting the Viet Minh. The Geneva conference gave half of Indo-China to the Viet Minh, but Ba Cut refused to accept the decision...
...This alliance is for electoral purposes only," insisted Papandreou, and swore he would not cooperate with the Reds after election. While Papandreou promised merely "a new foreign policy," Communist claques took over his rallies, shouting in Athens' Klafthmonos Square: "Out of NATO. Out with Americans." The shabby deal with the Communists may have cost the Liberals more votes than the Communists brought them...
...facts, convicted killers went to the gallows, and one such case became a celebrated indictment of capital punishment. A young truck driver named Timothy Evans was hanged in 1950 for the murder of his 14-month-old daughter, largely on the testimony of one John Christie, who, Evans swore, was the real killer. Three years later Christie himself was hanged for another murder, and new evidence made it almost certain that he, and not Evans, had killed the Evans baby...