Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosecution had saved its biggest surprise for its rebuttal-a small, quiet-spoken Negro woman named Edith Murray. The FBI had been looking for months for a maid called Edith who had worked for the Chambers in Baltimore, where, the Hisses both swore, they had never visited the Chambers...
Next morning, the enraged duke swore he would kill Dominguín. "A century ago," he bellowed, "I would have had him whipped to death." Instead, he called the police. They arrested Dominguín. Angelita was found in a hiding place, protected by proper duennage...
Agent John T. O'Shaughnessy said in an affidavit that he had monitored both Judy's and Gubichev's phones in New York in one three-month period, swore later on the stand that he had never listened in on Gubichev's phone in that period. Agent James J. Lynch disclosed that he had spent six months-five days a week,' eight hours a day-glued to Gubichev's phone and had heard only five conversations, some involving Gubichev's wife. Did she speak English or Russian? asked Abraham Pomerantz, Gubichev...
...Wolf), a Bulgarian-born, longtime NKVD tough who spent 1923-44 in Moscow, became the late Georgi Dimitrov's bodyguard and brother-in-law. After Dimitrov's death, Vulko succeeded in liquidating his rival, Traicho Rostov (TIME, Dec. 26), became undisputed boss of Bulgaria, recently swore "loyalty to the last breath" to Stalin...
...peripheral but important segments of the story told by Whittaker Chambers, onetime Communist courier and espionage agent. A Mrs. Margaret Kellog Smith, proprietor of a children's camp, refuted Chambers' testimony that Chambers and the Hisses had been together in Peterborough, N.H. on Aug. 10, 1937-she swore that Hiss had been at her camp near Chestertown, Md. Alger Hiss's brother Donald denied another item of Chambers' testimony-that Soviet Agent Colonel Bykov wanted Donald to steal State documents too. Donald testified that he had not gone to work for the State Department until...