contended

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Contended the informant, as reported in the committee document: "Briguglio received payoffs from Donovan for his assistance in obtaining the contracts."

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Contended Republican Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa: "Overnight, this makes Jim Baker the most serious male candidate for Vice President in 1988."

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Contended one physician: "If the discovery had come ten hours earlier, we could have found more survivors."

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Contended Dean: "I was just getting rid of something I didn't know how to handle."

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And love and hate Contended in my bosom when, that night Before the fight that should decide our fate, I entered where he slept.

From Idyllic Monologues Old and New World Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius