Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contests are ample to illustrate the overall frustration that results from a division of partisan leadership between Capitol Hill and the White House. The question remains whether the unmistakable swing to the Republicans is as strong as B. Carroll Reece would have it, or as hypothetical as Hannigan would claim...
Ismail Sidky Pasha, back from London discussions (sometimes limited by Sidky's bladder trouble), embarrassed Britain by letting his spokesman claim that Bevin had promised Egypt sovereignty over Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. A quick denial came from the British, who had no intention of surrendering military or administrative control of this northernmost link in the prospective Nigeria-Kenya chain...
...Europe's concentration camps sprang hip-deep into the great moral problems of our time. At 41, ex-Communist, now-Socialist Koestler is easily the top intellectual argufier writing today. Still picking the tough ones, he has now written a novel about Palestine and the Jews who claim it as their home. Thieves in the Night will not add a cubit to the stature of Koestler the novelist. But Koestler the acrobatic controversialist is at home in Palestine...
...exactly where we have placed them. In the concoction of this word-cacaphony he has enjoyed neither privilege of initiative nor power of veto. His role is so different from that of publishers in real life that, whatever the shortcomings of today's Crimson, we tend to support his claim that he cannot be held responsible for them. In his capacity as Curator of the Nieman Foundation (Keeper of the Nieman Fellows), however, he has consented to do an introduction on them...
...even should Fair Harvard all games claim...