Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claim, to be a newsmagazine, but your June 22 article disparaging the commuter service on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad revealed your magazine for what it is: merely an entertaining collection of witticism, distortion, and onesided reporting tailored to please those lazy-minded individuals who haven't got the guts to think for themselves...
...July 4, 1959 rolled westward from the international dateline, U.S. outposts, embassies and ships at sea broke out the nation's new 49-star flag, signaling Alaska's entrance into the Union. On Guam the 809 Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army, claimed the honor of raising the first 49-star flag in the world-a claim sure to be hotly contested. At 12:01 a.m. E.D.T., the first 49-star flags in the domestic U.S. were unfurled from the U.S. Capitol, and at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. At the Capitol arm-weary policemen raised and lowered...
...anniversaries approached, President Nasser's associates reported him increasingly concerned lest Iraq's young revolution, despite its domestic troubles, should be too much of an encouragement to other restless Arabs, particularly in his own neighboring northern province of Syria. Last week, accepting this challenge to his claim to Arab leadership, Nasser proclaimed that the real revolution in Egypt is only now about to begin...
...mandarin wood, in front of Bangkok's Grand Palace. Drenched with gasoline and set afire, the blaze was watched by thousands until dawn. Boasted Thailand's boss. Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, who has also closed down nightclubs, "massage parlors" and brothels: "From this day we can proudly claim that we are a civilized people. Gone will be those trying days when we were pilloried by the foreign press, which printed squalid pictures of opium addicts...
...enough. "Thank you," he replied politely, "but I sell only ten to people who read the paper and 40 to people who smoke it." So much in demand is the Post for its roll-your-own qualities that back copies sell for 7? a lb., and the paper can claim title as the world's most widely smoked publication. It can also claim a first-class journalistic coup. Few more improbable newspaper locales could be conceived than New Guinea, 312,329 square miles of steaming, often impenetrable jungle and snowcapped mountains populated by 2,400,000 natives-90% illiterate...