Word: attested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench. As any child detective can attest, guessing the murderer, the place of death and the fatal weapon makes Clue a humdinger of a whodunit and a longtime Parker Brothers' best-selling board game. Never known to let a best seller get away, Hollywood has just begun filming a movie based on the game. The first clues fans will want, of course, are who plays the familiar players: Lesley Ann Warren (Miss Scarlett), Martin Mull (Colonel Mustard), Madeline Kahn (Mrs. White), Michael McKean (Mr. Green), Christopher Lloyd (Professor Plum) and Eileen Brennan...
Kilty chose to do double duty in this production; in addition to directing, he has also taken the part of the over-educated Spanish rogue, Don Armado. Most actors will attest that directing oneself is a big mistake; Woody Allen does it, but Allen is a genius. Kilty...
...gold that had been buried by ancient Israelites who had migrated to America. According to Smith's 1838 account of the momentous event, the angel Moroni showed him the site outside Palmyra where the plates were hidden. Harris is one of the Mormon Church's "Three Witnesses," who attest that they too saw the plates, so his truthfulness is also a matter of faith. The Harris letter, dated seven months after the publication of the Book of Mormon, recounts what he says are Smith's words about the scriptural discovery: "I . . . only just got it because of the enchantment," says...
...June, 1981, Senator Moynihan introduced a resolution in the Senate which provided that no bill could be sent to the House or to the President which a majority of Senators present and voting "cannot attest to having read." Mr. Moynihan assured his colleagues that the resolution was not in just, though it is unlikely he expected it to be adopted...
...certain he regards this as an unforntunate development. I would like to suggest, therefore, that the Senator consider resubmitting his original resolution, with the added provision that no bill may be voted on which a majority of Senators "cannot attest to having understood...