Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Vishinsky had a chance to play the new peace tune as he likes to play it-cheaply. Dag Hammarskjöld, the neutral Swede, was sworn in as Trygve Lie's successor, vowing to "exercise in all loyalty, discretion and conscience the functions of the Secretary General." Afterwards, diplomats gathered round to welcome the new man and say farewell to the old. Lie and Hammarskjold started down the line, and the eighth man they came to was Andrei Vishinsky, who, for more than three years, has ignored or berated Lie as an "American stooge." This...
Since the day he was sworn in, Brownell has been working seven days and seven evenings a week and holding daily luncheon conferences with his staff. On a recent weekend, his homework was studying the case of Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, to determine whether he should recommend, clemency or reject their plea. The new man at Justice takes his job very seriously. Said he: "I feel strongly that the Department of Justice is a keystone of the Republic. If it fails, all that our youth has fought to preserve crumbles...
Blame-Weary. In Albuquerque, Purcell Felter got a divorce after declaring in a sworn statement from Japan that he joined the army to get away from a hypercritical wife: "I was blamed for the dust storms, the heat, the cold and all the natural phenomena indigenous to Albuquerque. I just couldn't take it any more...
...that I have attended every important communist meeting in this country. This is, of course, complete nonsense. The charge relative to communist front, organizations is also untrue. I have never attended a communist meeting and have had no contact whatever with the communist party. In fact, there is a sworn statement to that effect in Washington...
Joiner. In Laramie, Wyo., a college student waiting in court to pay a parking fine sat near a group of three men, obediently stood up with them and raised his right hand at Judge Frank Collican's order, was thus sworn in as a new policeman...