Word: swore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the fight may be over for Harvard, stateofficials said they felt the Navy's financialcalculations were incorrect and swore they wouldcontinue the efforts to keep the Navy offices intheir Virginia location...
...weeks ago, Gayle Daniels, the only black juror on the 1984 sentencing panel, swore in an affidavit that she did not vote for execution because she "did not believe ((Hance)) knew what he was doing at the time of his crimes." Daniels recounted how jurors initially favored a life sentence. But mindful of the prosecutor's warning that Hance could be paroled in just a few years, they sent notes to the judge asking what a "life sentence" meant. The judge never responded. After that, several jurors began pushing for death. When Daniels held out, the remaining jurors, impatient...
Even though many writers declared the mystery about the author settled, D'Vys swore he wrote "Casey" all the way to his grave. In fact, he once accused Thayer of stealing his poem form the Cambridge Common...
...panel on retrofitting city buildings, he believes that the Bullock's, which made up part of the mall, probably should have been retrofitted. Similar observations are being made by many regarding the numerous major highways crippled by the quake. After the area's last big temblor, in 1971, L.A. swore it would strengthen its freeway bridges. But costs slowed the project, and the legislature voted down a 2 cents-per-gal. gas tax that might have goosed it along. Infuriatingly, I-10, the most important and hardest hit of the freeways, had been scheduled for retrofitting next month...
...Israel swore it would seek revenge following the massacre of 11 of its athletes by members of the P.L.O. at the Olympic Games in Munich. Last week a former Israeli director of military intelligence official revealed just how effectively that retaliation was carried out, when military censors finally allowed an interview he gave a year ago to be broadcast on national television. The official, Aharon Yariv, said between 10 and 15 Palestinians involved in the Munich attack had been assassinated by Israeli agents...