Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children behind and took to the hills. Two weeks later he decided to give himself up for trial. "I am innocent!" he shouted in court; he had been miles away at the time of the murder, loading a wagon with bootleg booze. But a trio of confessed holdup men swore that he had been their accomplice. Carlo's nickname was against him; so was the law, which in Italy holds that the accused is guilty until he proves his innocence. Carlo went to prison for life...
...rookies took their places on the Hill. Vice President Nixon swore in Alton A. Lennon, 46, North Carolina lawyer, as successor (by gubernatorial appointment) to the late Senator Willis Smith. House Speaker Martin swore in James B. Bowler, 78, Chicago alderman, as successor (by victory in a by-election) to the late 23-term Representative Adolph Sabath...
Conference. The marriage was something short of idyllic. At the village cafe, Jean was soon telling new friends that Pierre was a stingy old miser and Marie a homely, stupid wench whom he had only married in order to get her farm. Farmer Pierre shook his fist and swore that his son-in-law was a lazy good-for-nothing. "Someday," replied Jean, "I'm going to walk out on you, but before I go, I'm going to burn down your filthy farm...
...when it must have happened. The intercourse, I mean." Medical evidence confirmed that he had sex relations with Victims 5, 6 and 7. The case for the defense had been made: Christie was that rare and unhappy human monster, a necrophile. With the evidence of a psychologist who swore that Christie's crimes were the result of "gross hysteria," the defense counsel aimed for a jury verdict of "Insane...
...rioters and ringleaders-or those they accused of being one or the other. Before dawn, a Soviet firing squad marched on to a field not far from the Brandenburg Gate and shot down the first of them, an unemployed West Berlin truck driver named Willi Goettling. His wife swore he had nothing to do with the uprising...