Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life" as a bright young thing. The book that resulted from his conversion, Cry Havoc (1933), proved to be one of the influential works of the decade. Like a match to a bonfire, it touched off, as he says himself, "the frenzied debates ... in which the youth of England swore never to fight for King and country...
John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, swore yesterday that Louis Budenz lied when he charged Fairbank was a communist...
Some 20 contributors to Pacific Affairs had been previously identified before the subcommittee as Communists or proCommunists. Lattimore swore, "I don't believe I ever knew or was told" they were Communists. The Senators then confronted the professor with I.P.R. documents, and he began to retreat a little...
...subcommittee on internal security, "have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" "Yes, I have, Mr. Morris," said Weyl firmly, and the room quieted to attentive silence. A few moments later reporters were scribbling: as a member of a Communist cell in Washington in 1934, Nathaniel Weyl swore that he attended secret Communist meetings with Alger Hiss, and saw Hiss pay his party dues...
...jewelry the night before. She pleaded: "Don't take my jewels. I worked hard to get them . . . There's $1,000 in my bag over there. Take that and I won't turn you in." One of the holdup men seemed to hesitate. One swore. The first one snapped: "Watch your language; ladies present." They ordered Miss Parnis and her secretary into a bathroom, barricaded the door, and left with $114,800 worth of jewelry, plus...