Word: attested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks of subsequent testimony, has attempted both to back up the substance of the documentary and to show that its producers did not doubt its accuracy. The network has presented three kinds of witnesses: CBS employees, military and intelligence officers who worked with Westmoreland, and former soldiers who could attest independently to the damage inflicted by the civilian "irregular" forces. Last week witnesses from all three categories were on the stand...
...mean to belittle in any way our sense of revulsion against this brutality. I knew Caroline, liked her, and can attest to the glowing words that friends used to describe her in newspaper accounts of her death. But there was something in the reaction here that conjured up that gnawing feeling we don't like to admit to ourselves--that the liberalism here often runs only skin-deep, that there is an insularity to the Ivy-covered walls surrounding...
Royko writes about a host of subjects in the hundred columns, all with the same scepticism and humor. He's not just a humorist, of course--as his life-long feud with Mayor Daley can attest--but this collection does not include his anti-Daley columns. Royko alternately exhibits conservative and liberal tendencies without contradiction: he simply exercises good common sense and defies facile labels...
That it has a working crew becomes clear as the boat enters the lock. With practiced ease, Deck Hand Basil Kuvshinikov, whose name and accent both attest to his origins in the Russian city of Smolensk, steps ashore and walks beside the slowly moving boat, a loop of its thick forward hawser over his shoulder. As he slips the loop over one of the mushroom-shaped bollards onshore, another deck hand, a stocky, bearded man named Tim Burke, tightens the line, snubbing the Peckinpaugh to the side of the lock...
...month prison sentence. His district's predominantly Republican voters had difficulty deciding whether they preferred a felon to a Democrat. Richard Stallings, 44, a college history professor, treated Hansen's crime obliquely in his campaign. "Some claim to be fiscal conservatives but their own lives do not attest to that," he said. "I stay out of debt and pay the bills when they come due." By dawn on Wednesday, Stallings led by a mere 67 votes...