Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipments and machine removals when all the world knows what is at stake: "I want to raise this debate to the level commensurate with the gravity of the crisis we face." She does so bluntly: "The people of Berlin are unwilling to surrender to the S.E.D. and the Communist claim for power . . . Our mind and will are firmly set on the goal of Germany as a free and constitutional state . . . We know the seriousness of this hour." (The Russian officer has laid aside his nailfile, and listens intently.) With a bold kind of irrelevance that is a measure...
...that remains to be done is painting the house and refinishing the downstairs rooms. "We expect to be through with it in about a month," says Matarachi. All the men claim they wouldn't have done it if they had known what the job would require. "We practically rebuilt the place," they...
Arguments advanced for this issue included the claim that the fee is a bargain, since the same items now cost 'Cliffedweilers $17,00; the assertion that activities would thrive with the all-college backing they now lack; the belief that organizations now dependent on Harvard membership would win new independence; the possibilities of a year book which would chronicle affairs of all four classes instead of one; advantages of a pooled emergency fund for all clubs, publications and groups like Radcliffe; and the ease of collection...
...claim to be any expert critic of art, far from it. But I do think . . . that drivel that you print as Art by Matisse stinks. His masterpieces look like the work of a patient in a mental institution...
...convinced you have somehow put the wrong cut-line under the picture of five men you claim to be "stalwarts" of the House un-American Activities Committee. . . . That picture [TIME, March 29], for my money, is a still shot from one of Alfred Hitchcock's spy-thrillers...