Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mark of Hoffa's brazen determination to get what he wants any way he can was his performance in the early days of the Senate Labor Rackets investigation. New York Lawyer John Cye Cheasty swore that Hoffa hired him to spy on the committee's investigative work. When Hoffa was arrested and tried on bribery and conspiracy charges before a jury of eight Negroes and four whites, Hoffa's good "friend," ex-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, made a conspicuous show of himself in the courtroom. During the trial John Cheasty noted a recurrent Hoffa action. Jimmy...
...first fact to emerge was that there was nothing but the unsupported word of Anna Maria Caglio to indicate that Piero Piccioni had ever even met Wilma Montesi. He himself swore that he had not. In her testimony Caglio tangled herself up in so many contradictions that the crowd which had cheered her arrival watched her depart in cold silence save for a single shout of "basta" (enough...
...Gossip Columnist Hedda Hopper. The TV set, once trimmed with skunk by a movie mogul who desired to show his contempt for the new medium, now can be ordered in mink from a Hollywood furrier. Even in the executive dining rooms of some of the movie studios that once swore war to the death against the invasion, television sets now play through lunch. These and many other signs suggest how television, with its voracious demand for stories, actors, film and filmmakers, has become the star of a new Hollywood and reduced the movies to the role of a supporting player...
Simon reports that one prominent Arab swore that his interrogation by a French army major and two captains lasted 57 hours, during which he was tortured by electrodes attached to his fingers, ears and testicles, later by immersion in water and beating with a riding crop. Concludes angry Author Simon: "We, who have fought against the racist monstrosity . . . are today conquered by Hitler, if our nation has adopted his ideas and methods...
...Tsuru swore several times, in response to direct questions, that he had never joined the Communist party either in the United States or in Japan...