Word: swore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This time Ed Rollins swore he was telling the truth. His earlier contention that the Republican Party had doled out $500,000 to suppress the black vote in New Jersey's gubernatorial election had been a political boast, he said last week, concocted as a "head game" with his rival political strategist, James Carville. That was Rollins' explanation last week for earlier remarks that had touched off a furor following Republican Christine Todd Whitman's narrow victory over incumbent Democrat James Florio...
...never saw the local spin on this issue in the national press. While scientists were talking of hantaviruses carried in rat feces, a local columnist swore that the victims shared a common thread: the feds had sprayed a small marijuana patch near Farmington with herbicides but delayed chopping it down and burning it until the next day. When the Feds came back they found the crop harvested for presumably local consumption...
Down to the wire, the first-term representative swore she wouldn't support a package she knew her constituents loathed. The day before the bill hit the House floor, The Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article about this bold newcomer, who had voted against the pre-conference version a month earlier...
...serious drop in consumer confidence? It isn't surprising that different people wanted to spin the decline in March retail sales in different ways; what was curious was who picked which way. Republicans, who might normally ascribe the 1% decline, the steepest in two years, to Clintonite economic malaise, swore it was a temporary glitch in a continuing recovery, caused by the March blizzard that kept East Coast consumers from shopping. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who would be expected to agree with the anomalous act-of-God explanation, instead declared gravely that "recovery is at risk." The reason...
...turned out that Bill Clinton had something to learn. For the first half of the week, as the new President prayed and played and paraded and swore his oath of office, his nomination of Zoe Baird as Attorney General seemed nearly as secure as those of the rest of his Cabinet, stars and hacks alike. She had freely admitted hiring undocumented workers, to both Administration officials and Senators who were questioning her, and they had generally brushed it off as "an honest mistake." But within 72 hours, her nomination was unsalvageable, and she became the first U.S. Cabinet nominee...