Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loyalty hearing, Radulovich produced witnesses who swore that his father was not addicted to reading Communist propaganda. And, while not denying his sister's lapses of political good sense, he pointed out that his contact with her was slight, and certainly not of the frequent and close variety prohibited by the Air Force with people of suspect loyalty...
First, there was a ceremony in a dark Soviet registry office. Then there was a smart wedding at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Louis, followed by a reception at Clara's home. "There were gallons of vodka," Alf recalls, "and the British and Russians tearfully swore vows of eternal friendship." Less than a year later, Hall was sent back to London. Clara said goodbye at Moscow airport, expecting to get her London visa in a few days. Then & there the trouble began. The Soviet government, which does not like its women to marry foreigners and does...
...time and the war went on, money and food became scarcer. At one time Audrey's family had nothing to eat for days but endive. "I swore I'd never eat it again as long as I lived," she says. The hungry days in Holland gave her a taste for rich pastries and chocolate that is still unsatisfied...
...Some editors did their best to keep the story going, with follow-ups on what women thought about Kinsey. Many readers were indignant. The Great Bend, Kans. Tribune got so many protests "from religious groups and . . . individual readers" that it stopped a five-installment series with the first and swore off: "No more Kinsey...
...afraid I would be shot," the man said. Under the seal of the confessional, the priest could not repeat the information, but when the man died the priest wrote to Rome about it. Six months later an official from the public prosecutor's called on the priest, who swore to the truth of the confession. That was in 1937, but the wheels of Fascist justice ground slowly, if at all. Carlo remained in jail. The guilty man serving the shorter sentence was released; he died under German machine guns in the massacre of the Ardeatine Caves, near Rome...