Cannot delete keywords

I am working with an iPhoto library which has repeatedly developed a problem where I am unable to delete an incorrectly applied keyword from an image or series of images. This is iPhoto 9.5.1, but has been happening intermittently for months, both while I was on OSX 10.8.5 and after update to 10.9.3. The library has about 4,000 images and several hundred keywords.
As I am labelling images, I select several that share a theme/keyword, add the keyword, and then, if I realize a few were mistakenly included, and try to delete that particular keyword from the images where it doesn't belong, once in a while the offending keyword pops up again in the list as soon as I: highlight and click cmd-delete; highlight and change the spelling of the keyword (the changed spelling remains and the original keyword/key phrase pops up unaltered again); and persists despite repair or rebuild of the database. Deleting the images from the entire library, emptying the trash, and readding them did not work the first time (one of the images claimed to be a duplicate, and the persistent 'original' was still labelled with the unkillable keyword.
Deleting the images from the library a second time did work.
But still, this is not the first time this same library has had this problem, and I do not recall such a problem with any other of my many separate libraries.
Has anyone else seen similar behavior, and is there any way to fix the problem without deleting the keyword entirely from the library (not trivial when it's used for several dozen to hundreds of images); or deleting the images entirely from the library and re-adding several times?
I have invested a lot of time in thorough labelling of these images and do not want to have to recreate all of that work (and might not be able tor recreate all accurately at this late date, so far out from shooting some of the images), but should do so sooner than later if this behavior is eventually going to corrupt the library anyway.

Deleting the images from the entire library, emptying the trash, and readding them did not work the first time (one of the images claimed to be a duplicate, and the persistent 'original' was still labelled with the unkillable keyword.
Are you syncing your library with any services? Facebook, Flickr, Photo Stream? Then the wrong keywords may be reimported, when the phot albums are synced with the online versions. If you have shared photos with keywords, I would remove them from the published albums and republish them without keywords.
And then again use the "Manage My Keywords" panel to delete the keyword.

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