Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tolerating Fidel Castro, the big powers repeat their 1932 mistake of tolerating Hitler. Castro, Somoza and Trujillo all justify their crimes with the claim of defending the people. Castro openly murders (official word: executes) hundreds of those who dare to have different opinions, but strangely, everybody sees only the villainies of the other two. Is it because when they kill, they do not make a public show...
Nixon: We do not claim to astonish the Russian people. We hope to show our diversity and our right to choose. We do not want to have decisions made at the top by one government official that all houses should be built the same...
...will accelerate and acquire structure, and in all probability the Tufts production will have become more than adequate. I choose to look on the bright side because the American premiere of Ugo Betti's masterpiece is not an event to be missed. For later productions will fully certify its claim to be one of the great plays of the twentieth century--as timely as the latest headline from Geneva, as timeless as the struggle of man's will with fate...
...hired troops dropped by the wayside, Goldfine tried to have the case thrown out of federal court on the claim that his Washington hotel room had been bugged by a former investigator for the subcommittee, but, although his claim was true, the contempt charge remained on the docket. Last week, when he came up for trial, Goldfine, 68, switched his plea from not guilty to nolo contendere (no contest), threw himself on the mercy of the court. Said Federal Judge James Morris: Goldfine's plea is a "complete vindication of the committee. [It] admits all of the relevant facts...
Sharing the vaguely socialist views of India's Nehru, but "with room for free-enterprise capitalism," the energetic Prime Minister recognizes Communists as his enemies at home and Red China as his enemy abroad; in typical Red "cartographic aggression," Chinese maps lay claim to large chunks of Nepal. Not long ago, Koirala declared that "the Tibetan tragedy was an Asian parallel to the Hungarian annihilation." Nehru has not been heard to say as much about either Tibet or Hungary...