Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Century Britons and Spaniards first disputed Belize, and the Guatemalans inherited the dispute. In mid-19th Century, Britain tried to settle it all by promising the Guatemalans a road to their back-country province of Petén in return for recognition. By failing to build the road, Guatemalans claim, the British forfeited their title. Since then the British have lost money on their colony. Apart from a seaport for Petén, all the Guatemalans would win with Belize is prestige...
These blocs must be the target of the New England student committees. As Vandenberg pointed out in his speech, the current legislation does not claim to be a cure-all, nor does it promise immediate results. But something will be passed, good or bad. The Harvard-Radcliffe Committee has rightly seen that its job is to hammer away at this Congress, in an attempt to keep the ERP bill within the broad and constructive frame of Marshall's original suggestion...
Showman Gonzalez was not alone in the international claim-staking act. The Argentines were in a dispute with the British over Antarctic lands and the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). Argentine Task Force I, five ships with no fewer than five admirals aboard, had pushed south to visit the outpost on Deception Island. It made quite a show of power, especially since the Argentine hut on Deception is only 80 feet from the British base. But when the Argentines learned that the British had sent the 8,000-ton cruiser Nigeria from South Africa to the same waters, they cried...
...Cures" & Quacks. Did Freud give up hypnotism too soon? Authors Wolfe and Rosenthal, sure that he did, report hypnotic effects that make Svengali* look like a tyro. They claim that hypnotism has cured numerous cases of psychoneurosis, made childbirth painless and alcoholics sober. They reassure prospective patients by saying that no one can be forced to act against his moral principles while in a trance (e.g., a girl cannot be hypnotically seduced if she does not want to be; if she does, the authors add gravely, "hypnosis is an unnecessarily involved and roundabout route...
...Albina who insisted that they go up in the mountains and work the claim, which had reverted to Simon. She tended the llama-dung fire, melted the snow for drinking water, and prodded Simon on when he tired of hacking away at the mountainside. When he finally struck the rich lode that became the fabulous La Salvadora mine, she helped load the sacks with ore, bring it down on llama-back, and grind it on a millstone...