Word: swore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discredit the show. Witnesses against Herbert have told him that they are ready to testify that they were forced to make their statements. Barry Lando, who did most of the "research," turns out to be a writer who asked to co-author Herbert's book, and when rejected, swore, before several witnesses, that he would "get even...
...laughter when his side scores a point. At a meeting last fall, he and Bok disagreed over a bit of financial minutia, and when evidence corroborating his position came forth from the audience, he lurched forward chuckling, his finger waggling at the somewhat taken aback Bok. Some observers swore they detected him stick out his tongue at the President...
Well, not quite. With some further checking, police determined that the man's car had stopped only a mile from a gas station, on a chilly but sunny day. Motorists who had passed by the same spot only two hours earlier swore that the car wasn't there. The sheriff's office concluded, "He was off his nut." The amended story was just as sad, but at least it offered a reprieve from the country's verdict on itself...
...forged or stolen Israeli documents is that some conservative Arab governments have threatened to cut off support if Palestinians use their passports on anti-Israeli missions. The fedayeen are leaning more and more toward the desperate tactics of Black September. Yasser Arafat, eulogizing the dead Hussein Al Bashir, swore revenge "not on Cyprus, not in Israel and not in the occupied territories." That meant retaliation could come anywhere in the broadening battle of the spooks. Israeli officials are warning citizens abroad to take even more stringent security precautions than usual...
Watching Harvard lose to B.U. in the Beanpot while my stomach grappled with a Garden hot dog had been rough during my first three years of frustrated jockdom at Harvard. But this year, I swore off dogs and Harvard was favored, so when I took the subway into Boston on Monday night, I nurtured renewed hope. However, the Terriers not only upset Harvard, they bombed...