Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After finding that he was normal in blood pressure, temperature and locomotion, the recruiter swore him in and sent him to Fort Dix, N.J. He had an Army intelligence rating of 28-three points above the lowest level permissible in the service. He also had a tendency to go AWOL. But Pvt. Edgar Owens was considered a "satisfactory" soldier, and he was patiently instructed in the use of weapons...
...Free Corps members (somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000) swore fresh fealty to Adolf Hitler, took their oaths on a copy of Mein Kampf, insisted that the rightful leader of Germany is Admiral Karl Doenitz, Hitler's designated heir, who still has three more years to pay in Spandau prison for his war crimes. A threadbare, ragtag lot, the Freikorps met, often in groups of 150, in beer halls, and talked of a Nazi government in West Germany, "possibly by 1957." Unlike the group arrested by the British, which was clever enough to realize that neo-Nazis must...
Illegal. In Albany, N.Y., Attorney John Ford, representing Ralph Lambert in a stolen car case, swore out a warrant for his client's arrest, charging that Lambert had stolen his lawyer's automobile...
...Washington, Chief Justice Fred Vinson, who swore in three new aides for the Attorney General, explained why he postponed the ceremony for 30 minutes: the twelve-year-old son of one of the new aides was scheduled to play with his school basketball team and also wanted to see his father take the oath. The Chief Justice agreed to wait until the game was over...
...wounded man in, got him patched up by a doctor, and sent him to Cliffside Park, N.J. to recuperate. According to Smith's testimony, Cliffside's Chief of Police Frank Borelli assured him of protection as "long as we didn't do anything." Borelli, he swore, tipped him that the FBI was moving in, and he ducked away to Marlboro, N.Y. (Cried the chief last week: "I don't even know the bum.") But Smith had hard luck-he went back to New York, got shot again, recuperated again, got shot again, recuperated again...