Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schoolboy at Groton, she was a showgirl in Noel Coward's girlshow, Set to Music. Later she had some minor success in radio soap operas, e.g., Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne, and in nightclubs.. One night in 1943 Ensign Bill Woodward, just out of Harvard and just sworn in for wartime service with the Navy, spotted a girl wearing a cat costume in the chorus line at the Copacabana. It was Ann, and it was love. After a two-week engagement, they were married in Tacoma, Wash. Bill went to sea duty (later he was one of 272 survivors...
Placed in the unfamiliar hair shirt of sworn oaths and cross-examinations, the Senator made some interesting statements. He admitted that his investigating subcommittee kept no records of its executive sessions and that it called Kamin in 1954 without any written evidence at all. It seems that McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and Francis Carr ran the committee by a casual gentlemen's agreement under which a tip that some person had worked on a Government project, if it looked juicy enough, might lead to a subpoena and to blanket questions like, "Who else worked with you?" This is exactly what liberals...
...Sworn in last week as Argentina's new President, replacing deposed Strongman Juan Perón: Major General Eduardo Lonardi. 59, a career officer whose name was unknown to most of his countrymen one week earlier Origins. Born Sept. 17, 1896. in Buenos Aires, son of a music teacher of Italian descent. Family name was originally Leonardi Military Career. Graduated from the national military academy as artillery lieutenant. Taught tactics at Superior War College in 1930s. Appointed Argentine military attaché in Santiago, Chile in 1943, where he succeeded Colonel Juan Perón who had been suspected...
...rough sea, he was reported lost by the Boston papers, but the Coast Guard refused to search the Bay for him unless one of his family first reported him missing. Meanwhile, his brother-in-law, Stephen A. Thomas, brought suit against Grover for threatening him, and a warrant was sworn...
...some treacherous bargain. "We laugh at Adenauer," crowed Grotewohl, and Deputy Premier Otto Nuschke, with the Russians' beaming approval, deliberately mocked at every Adenauer claim of achievement. "What Premier Bulganin promised Adenauer about the release of ... prisoners was only the result of our work," said Nuschke. Adenauer had sworn that he would never negotiate with East Germany. Said Nuschke cockily: "There will either be unification of Germany by negotiation with the East German government, or there will be no reunification...