Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demi-Rome. It was not an easy matter to decide. The world's oldest profession could claim a long and proud history in Italy. Romulus and Remus, the brothers who founded Rome, it was said, were themselves the bastards of a vestal virgin who yielded to Mars for a consideration. In 1490 a city vicar reported to the Vatican that Rome's prostitutes numbered more than "6,800, not even counting those who live in concubinage and those who, not publicly but in secret, maintain five or six women in their houses." Sixtus V (1585-90) wanted...
Forty-eight hours later the government proudly announced to the world that Kostov had been hanged. It also made an extraordinary claim which it did not document; before the end, said the Ministry of Justice, Kostov had made a groveling plea for mercy and a "full confession." The late Traicho Kostov, who was in no position to deny the tale, was quoted as explaining that his defiant attitude in court had been due to "nervous agitation and the unhealthy ambition of an intellectual . . . The sentence is absolutely just and . . . necessary in the struggle against the Anglo-American imperialists." Bulgaria...
...Hennig was fined ?281,175 ($787,290), one of the largest fines ever handed out in a London court; two company officers were sent to jail. When Winston and Parser appeared in court to claim their part of the shipment of diamonds, worth ?26,134, they were cleared of any blame, but the gems were confiscated...
...Aurelia, on a plot of 124 meager acres which had produced nothing but blackberries for years, the land-hungry were fiercely hacking away weeds and shrubs; one old man, behind a pair of snow-white oxen, turned a fresh furrow in the fallow earth to stake his claim...
...Detroit Free Press last week Daniel Carbone, a shoemaker, telephoned a strange story: three months before, a well-dressed couple had left 16 pairs of good-quality shoes with him to be repaired, had never returned to pay his $17.05 bill and claim the shoes. Sensing a poignant mystery, the Free Press next morning frontpaged a photo of the mysterious shoes, wondered whether the owners had perished in the S.S. Noronic's ill-fated voyage from Detroit to Toronto (TIME, Sept. 26). But by nightfall the Free Press picture had produced the footwear's flesh & blood owner...