Word: swore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pender County superior court last week, three key prosecution witnesses testified that they had lied at the original trial under pressure from Prosecutor Stroud. The star witness, Allen Hall, a black youth with an IQ of 78 and a long criminal record, swore in confusing testimony that while he was under observation at a mental hospital before the trial, Stroud had promised him a short prison sentence; he said he was coached to insist that he had helped set the grocery ablaze under Chavis' direction. Another witness, then 13 years old, said Stroud gave...
...foreign maneuvers such as this. Over Christmas, Kissinger played a central role in the decision to bomb Hanoi. More lives were lost; yet more of Vietnam was laid waste. When the accords were finally signed, Kissinger again lied, stating categorically that there were no secret protocols or understandings. He swore the same before Congress. Since that time a number of secret protocols have come to light, including a pledge to reintervene. A pledge that was not acted upon, but a pledge similar to others involving the U.S. in illegal operations and improper commitments...
...reason no one is talking is because everyone has been asked not to," Mackay-Smith said yesterday, adding that the search committee swore the president and managers of the choral society to secrecy last month...
...pray, work at his spinning wheel and practice yoga until about 7. He eats only uncooked food-milk, fruit, cheese, carrot juice-and disdains even cereals. He also rejects alcohol, tobacco and modern medicine, and looks and acts at least 20 years younger than his 81 years. He swore off sex in his early 30s as a way of achieving self-control. In principle he favors national prohibition and regards self-control as the best means of achieving family planning-although, he quickly adds, he realizes that "governments are not run for freaks like me" (see interview...
...Seven killers who were Black Muslims broke into the Washington home of Hanafi Leader Khalifa Hamaas Abdul Khaalis. They brutally murdered five of Khaalis' children, his nine-day-old grandson and a devoted follower. (Black Muslim officials have denied that their organization was in any way involved.) Khaalis swore revenge...