Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ARMED FORCES The Reactionary Last week nearly 100 young men in crisp white uniforms stood on the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy grounds at Kings Point, L.I., raised their right hands and fervently swore their allegiance to the U.S. and its Navy. In the ranks was handsome, 21-year-old Eugene Landy-and he kept his hands stiff at his sides...
...point at stake, TIME garbles my testimony by reporting: "Talbert argued that security was violated when [the New York Times' Correspondent Charles] Grutzner put the story on commercial wires out of Seoul, i.e., they were thought to be tapped." There weren't any commercial wires. What I swore was that Mr. Grutzner sent his story by commercial wireless to the U.S. in uncoded English and that this was the equivalent of broadcasting it to the enemy...
...through the third game of the memorable 1951 pennant playoff with the Giants, Campy kept ducking into the dugout toilet to pray for victory. When Bobby Thomson connected for his unbelievable, game-winning home run for the New York Giants, Campy swore at the soaring ball: "Sink, you devil, sink!" He kept muttering until the ball disappeared...
When Abdias' shock wore off, "murderer" and victim embraced, swore everlasting friendship, went arm in arm to see the warden. José told the astounded official what had happened, explained that a band of sugar workers had found him rifling the pockets of his unconscious victim and presumed Abdias dead. Turned over to local police and shunted from one backwoods station house to another, José, too, had thought the man dead, and had finally been convicted on the testimony of the sugar workers and his own confession despite the absence of a corpse. "This is highly irregular," murmured...
...employed a familiar technique: lightening ship by throwing overboard once useful cronies.* Out went the two front men of his anti-church campaign: Minister of Interior Angel Gabriel Borlenghi (who departed in haste to Uruguay) and Minister of Education Armando Méndez San Martin. To replace them he swore in ("by God, the Fatherland and the Holy Gospels") a pair of party hacks: Oscar Edmundo Albrieu, 40, as Interior Minister, and Francisco Marcos Anglada, 38, as Education Minister. Both were moderate enough to represent a concession to the church, but Peronista enough to make it clear that...