Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Gehlen organization. It proved easy. The motive he gave for becoming a double agent for the Reds seemed like an old propaganda broadcast. "I hate Americans like the plague," he said in court, recalling that after American air raids on Dresden he had sworn, "I shall repay them doubly and triply...
...What I do regard as relevant is the question of honesty, which the evasion of New York's laws raises. He showed he lacks the political honesty to attempt to change a law he disagrees with, and lacks the personal honesty to abide by a law he is sworn to uphold. If he were President, one can only wonder which laws he might use his wealth to evade...
...brief address, given after he was sworn in as President of Harvard College on October 13, 1953, Nathan M. Pusey said he would take a special interest in trying "to keep assembled here the very best teachers that can be found, to work to ensure conditions conducive to their best efforts, and constantly to strive for more effective ways to make their activity touch, quicken, and strengthen the intellectual aspirations of succeeding generations of young people...
Four years ago Happy Chandler, ineligible to seek re-election as Governor of Kentucky, sadly watched a band of dissident Democrats rebel against his organization, nominate and elect Bert Combs as his successor. Vowed Happy as he saw Combs sworn in: "I will come back and clean them out again." But it did not turn out that way-and last week Happy was sadder than ever...
None of this thinking is particularly new to the theological academies, but many Anglicans were shocked that it should come from a bishop sworn to defend the church against heresy. "It is not every day," grumbled the Church Times, "that a bishop goes on public record as apparently denying almost every Christian doctrine of the church in which he holds office." The Manchester Guardian called it a "dangerous tract," suitable only for theologians to read, and in a front-page editorial, London's Daily Mail wondered "whether he should continue as a bishop...