Word: swore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public image, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael K. Deaver is running into flak with his own. Now a Washington lobbyist, Deaver is under investigation for trading on Government contacts built up as an Administration insider. Last week he got a boost from the President, who swore that Deaver "never...
...baseball heritage is easy to trace. Etha Talbert, Gooden's paternal grandmother, swore it was spiritual. She died this year, convinced that Dwight was "his granddaddy come back alive." The boy never knew Uclesee Gooden but loved to hear his father's energetic accounts of the angular, strong-legged, long-armed Georgia pitcher whose fastball had been consigned by the times to a black sandlot in Albany. " 'Could he bring it, Dad?' Dwight would say to me, and I'd laugh. 'Yeah, he could bring...
...WITH reporters' pestering queries about the Philippines, President Reagan retorted with a casual expression of discontent. He swore...
...after graduating with honors from New Hampshire's prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy. Yet on a spring night last year, only ten days after graduation, Edmund Perry lay fatally wounded, a police officer's bullet in his abdomen, and his brother Jonah was being sought. Plainclothes Officer Lee Van Houten swore he had been attacked by Edmund and another man, whom the police later identified as Jonah. Authorities claimed the brothers assaulted Van Houten because they wanted money to go to the movies...
...Roby swore allegience to Cambridge ("I've been at Harvard for almost four years now and I've become attached to Cambridge."), but the Crimson's shooting must have made Roby wish he could return to the Big Green bench. Harvard hit only 18 of 56 floor shots for a 32.1 percent success mark. Meanwhile Dartmouth, led by red-hot Mackay, finished the game at 43 percent from the field...