Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment approached, no candidate could claim anywhere near a majority of solid, blitz-proof delegates. Like its well-remembered counterpart of 1940, this would be an open convention. Most of the convention's 1,094 votes were still uncommitted to any candidate. The delegates' decisions were still deferred for many reasons: honest indecision, a desire to make a deal, a desire to be on the winning side...
...Chelwood cried that the Parliament Bill was leading straight to an "oligarchy" of the cabinet. Sweeping the chamber with a steely glare, he said: "I shall be told, perhaps, that this does not matter because the cabinet obtain their power from the electorate . . . Hitler made a precisely similar claim . . ." Vigorous Lord Salisbury thundered in agreement: "It is the rights and liberties of the British people which are at stake...
Myron C. Taylor, the President's august envoy to the Vatican, also had child trouble. Undaunted by a court defeat last year, a Mrs. Eunice Walterman of Chicago re-entered her claim that she was his illegitimate daughter, this time sued for a round $2 million...
Zale, a champion once more and richer by $60,000 (Graziano's share of the purse: $120,000), went back to his dressing room, put in his store-teeth, and announced that he would fight any challenger-anyone, that is, but Roughhouse Rocky, whose one & only claim to glory, the power of his fists, had failed...
...time, Ohio Wesleyan University turned out so many prominent churchmen that its 20,000-odd alumni (paraphrasing Ohio's claim as the "Mother of Presidents") proudly call their alma mater the "Mother of Bishops." Last week, for the first time in its 106 years, Ohio Wesleyan picked a layman president: U.S. Civil Service Commissioner Arthur Sherwood Flemming...