Word: contend
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Prosecutors in the case contend that two men, 21-year-old Salvatore Sicari and 22-year-old Charles Jaynes, kidnapped Curley from his grandmother's East Cambridge home last Wednesday and then murdered him, dumping his body in the Piscataqua River near the New Hampshire-Maine border...
Prosecutors contend two men, 21-year-old Salvatore Sicari and 22-year-old Charles Jaynes, Kidnapped Curley from right near his grandmother's home in East Cambridge, and then murdered him, dumping his body in the Piscataqua River near the New Hampshire-Maine border...
...Promise Keepers contend, personal happiness for women derives from a devotion to men, then American women must be very happy indeed, for we are currently making the ultimate sacrifice: our lives...
...police seems to have brought the investigation to a halt. Frustrated members of the Boulder police department insinuate that Hunter has been sitting on the case because he is pals with lawyers for JonBenet's parents, who remain the chief suspects. A police source goes so far as to contend that "the Ramsey attorneys are making the calls, telling us [presumably through Hunter's office] what we can do and when we can do it." Hunter's many defenders--he is so popular that he has been elected to seven four-year terms, five without opposition--reply that the police...
...days later, in a calmer state, Gumbel explained that he felt the move by his superiors was simply "bad strategy." He added, "Someone could contend that the story was news and you shouldn't hold news. I don't feel compelled by that argument...