Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They will have to prove their claim to the national championship a fortnight hence, at the intersectional N.C.A.A. tournament in their hometown Garden. Chief threat (if invited): Oklahoma A. & M., champs of the Missouri Valley, coached by stern Hank Iba, whose players call him "Sir." A. & M.'s crack team (which has lost only two games) is paced by 7-ft., high-scoring (58 points in one game) Bob Kurland, whose "dunk shot" is thrown down through the hoop, not up to it. Another contender: Ohio State, the Big Ten victor (won 14, lost...
Within minutes after the hero had crossed the last divide, Denver's Mayor Robert W. Speer was out to claim him. Buffalo Bill dead and enshrined would obviously be a greater civic asset than Buffalo Bill alive with one foot on the Albany Hotel bar rail. Within an hour Bill's widow accepted the city's offer of a fine free burial on Lookout Mountain. (It took five months to bore a grave in the solid rock; Denver embalmers called on all their cunning to keep Bill looking...
...There is no objection to Rooney's wearing his Bronze Star, but I do claim that every fraternizing fraulein in Germany and every geisha girl in Japan should get the same award. After all, they entertained the troops...
...have the telegram 'thout signin'...comp'ny reg'lations y'know." He nasalizes similar lines as the psychopathic villain in the slight chiller now filling the Copley Theatre. The down-easter with the Maine twang is, in blunt fact, "Little Brown Jug's" sole claim to a dubious fame...
Rome and the U.S. The Church today must look to the U.S. for food to relieve the hunger and despair which, it well knows, drive angry men to claim their birthright as Cain claimed his. It looks to the U.S. as an example of the form of government which today promises the most for the Church's survival. It looks to the U.S. as an idealistic people who have at last chosen, or been forced, to take their place in international affairs. And it looks to Francis Cardinal Spellman as the practical, idealistic American who can best advise...