Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what was known as British justice in the 1680s. It was shocking language from a judge, but few Britons were shocked. In the courts, as on the street, the times had a raw, cruel edge. Defendants stood trial in irons, professional witnesses under the court's protection glibly swore to false evidence, juries were bullied unmercifully...
...Witnesses. The narrow-faced man told the police his name was Meyer Mittelman and that he was studying to become a rabbi. He admitted that he had been at Mühldorf, but he denied Benjamin Krieger's accusation and swore that he had never seen him before. The police took both men to a station house, jotted down their stories and sent them home. There were no facts to be examined, no witnesses to be questioned. No U.S. court had jurisdiction over a crime committed by a German slave in a Nazi concentration camp. Though...
Again the law whirred on the wheels of men's blurry memories: again witnesses pointed unequivocally at Shephard as the bad-check passer. "I stood there handcuffed while they swore my life away," he said later. The judge gave him 18 months in the penitentiary. When it was over he was arrested a third time, but a grand jury refused to indict for the simple reason that he had been behind bars at the time of the new crime. A banker on the grand jury listened overtime to Shephard's story of innocence and sent...
...doing of Lifar's friends, charged outraged Company Manager Thomas Fisher, husband of Ruth Page. They had bought up a block of balcony seats, he said, and caused the disorder. One member of the Page-Stone troupe swore a Lifar protege had told him: "We are going to make it impossible for an American ballet troupe to appear in Paris after what happened [to us] in New York...
Many an Anzac airman suspected that Squadron Leader Jimmy Duncan, special disciplinary officer of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, had X-ray eyes. "The Bull" could spot a loose tunic button, they swore, through three city blocks of buildings and traffic. Some suspected that he had seven-league boots as well. One unlucky trainload of troops who gave Jimmy the raspberry as their train pulled out of Wellington awoke next morning to find him waiting in Auckland (more than 300 miles away) to chew them out. He had grabbed a plane and flown up for the privilege...