Word: swore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prosecution witnesses swore that they saw Mitchell standing at the ditch, and that they heard rifle fire. But neither could swear that they saw Mitchell shoot anyone. The third, Radioman Charles Sledge, said he was "positive" he saw Mitchell firing at the civilians. Mitchell's civilian defense attorney, Ossie B. Brown, discredited Sledge's account, quoting testimony Sledge gave to Army investigators: "I believe it was Sgt. Mitchell firing into the ditch." The testimony of a prosecution witness, Dennis Conti, was weakened when fellow Army witnesses swore that they had heard Conti declare: "He [Mitchell] tried...
...case of the 16 students, the rule lay dormant until mid-July, when Harvard, in the person of Archibald Cox, swore out complaints against four of them, including Ryan, for trespass at Harvard during the national student strike last May. At the time, many SDS members contended that the Harvard Administration had deliberately waited until the student body had departed from Cambridge before filing legal charges. Cox responded, then and again last week in court, that there was no premeditated delay; the deans and the CRR had spent much of May and June prosecuting dozens of students for the obstructive...
Four high-ranking Harvard officials-President Pusey, Deans Dunlop and May, and Archibald Cox, the University spokesman who swore out the warrant against Ryan-received subpoenas from the defense to testify at the trial. All but Pusey appeared...
...although, as Ike protests, neither Tina nor the Ikettes "ever bumps or grinds. Their hips only move from side to side." After various Hollywood agencies pressured the network to air Ike and Tina, they finally appeared on Hollywood A-Go-Go, (One story has it that a network exec swore that Shinding would be cancelled if Ike and Tina appeared. When they did, the program was killed the next week.) Not long ago, they played on the EdSullivan show; Tina had to change the line "the more I grease you, the slicker you get" and the camera was kept trained...
GUNNAR JARRING is a model of the classic diplomat: discreet, discerning and infinitely patient. His reticence with the press is legendary. Once when he answered a newsman's question about the Middle East with a tight-lipped "No comment," U.N. Under Secretary-General Ralph Bunche swore that Jarring had been misquoted. "Gunnar would never say that much," declared Bunche...