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Contended Watson: "Castro convinced Cuban Americans that they were being emotionally toyed with."

From Time Magazine Archive

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 House Democratic Floor Leader Jim Wright of Texas: "The claim that the bill is over budget is as phony as a three-dollar bill."

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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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Street, And gazed upon it from your seat, Perched on a motor-bus, Did you, I wonder, guess that there, In ages long ago, the bear Contended for the choicest lair With the rhinoceros?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914 by Various