Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lest their housecleaning inspire some possible Monmouth kin (he was the illegitimate son of Charles II) to new activity against the House of Windsor, or bring Anne of Cleves's Dutch connections flocking to London to claim a place at court, the Lords were careful to add a rider. "This act," they informed anyone nursing an old grudge or claim, "shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect or consequences of anything done or suffered, or any existing status or capacity, or any right, title, obligation or liability...
...Salonika police claim an enviable record: since 1936, they say, not a single murder in that Greek port has gone unsolved. Six weeks ago, the body of 34-year-old CBS Correspondent George Polk was found floating in Salonika Bay, his hands & feet tied together, a bullet in his head (TIME, May 24). But by last week the police had made no arrests...
...Victor Mature, a gunman employed by silver-mining Tycoon Albert Dekker, suspects his boss of framing his father (an Army officer court-martialed after an Indian massacre at an Arizona fort). It is fairly easy for Mature to run around incognito, since none of his law-abiding family would claim him. His ineffectual brother (Glenn Langan), hot on the same vengeful trail, is more of a headache; brother nearly bungles everything...
...author does not accept this activity as patriotism in time of war, nor does he accept the scientists' broader claim that they are not responsible for the way the world utilizes their discoveries. "I would say," writes he, "that this is the No. 1 fallacy of the scientific mind . . . Certainly they are responsible . . . Certainly they can control how their new scientific principles are utilized; certainly they have to consider the implications of their research, and not merely strive blindly for facts, facts, facts...
...about Russia, when he wrote the book in 1945. The new World Geography for Texas, with the author's consent, would call Russia the "biggest" instead of the "greatest" nation in Europe, reduce the Soviet government's achievements from "mighty" to "considerable," downgrade Russia's claim to warm-water Baltic ports from "desperately" to "very much needed...