Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have refused under oath to say whether they were Communists or spies; six have not been called to testify to the charges made by Miss Bentley and by Chambers; one, Harold Ware, died in 1935, and 13-including Alger Hiss and William Remington, now in prison for their perjury-swore that the Bentley-Chambers accusations were false. Among the more interesting cases named by Bentley and/or Chambers...
...accused his court-appointed lawyer, a black-browed young army colonel, of slipping a copy of the defense plan to the court, and he punched the surprised man on the arm. Instantly, the lawyer leaped up, extracted a copy of the Koran from his breast pocket, and on it swore he had done no such thing. By this time Mossadegh was off on another tack, while the lawyer sat stiffly unhappy...
...small and thin.'' unattractive woman, old for her age and with "a loud and deep voice" in which she had "never learnt to lie," but only, as she said, "to be plain with you." She had one fixed intention: to restore the old religion. But she swore "graciously not to compel or constrain" the consciences of those who had accepted...
...testimony to the House committee, White neither admitted nor denied a connection with the Morgenthau plan, but he did deny espionage activity and swore that he had never been close to the Communist Party or its ideas...
...Death to Communism!" The first P.W. balked at his tent, fear taut in every line of his body, and cried: "No! No! I will not go!" He struggled with three Indian guards, and all four burst into the tent. "Please sit down," said the North Korean explainer. The P.W. swore at the explainer in hoarse, rasping Korean: "You are a pig and a dog and a descendant of pigs and dogs." He kicked at the explainer's table, and spattered his tunic with spittle. The explainer was still calm. "It is your privilege to refuse repatriation," he said evenly...