Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friends and critics alike saw not an immature Senator from Massachusetts but the legend's last guardian. That summer he avoided a chance for the presidential nomination. It would have been premature. But who could doubt that, if spared the fate of his brothers, he would make his claim on the legacy in the future? In his first speech after the murder in Los Angeles of Brother Robert, Edward Moore Kennedy proclaimed: "Like my three brothers before me, I pick up a fallen standard. Sustained by the memory of our priceless years together, I shall try to carry forward that...
...could not forget the image of his brother lying in a pool of his own blood in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. He made clear to his closest associates that he knew better than anyone else that there were uncounted numbers of psychopaths who might like to claim the murder of the last of the Kennedy brothers. Once he reportedly said: "I know that I'm going to get my ass shot off one day, and I don't want to." He talked privately of how his father had watched the Eisenhower funeral on television...
...cryptically told a group of 30 Southern blacks who were protesting the Administration's new school-desegregation guidelines. Though Mitchell's image as the Administration's heavy may prove hard to live down, he may be somewhat miscast in the part. Some of his colleagues even claim that he can crack a joke and a smile-from time to time...
Though the drug user may claim that his trip brings intense euphoria and a matchless sense of wellbeing, Philip believes that he is not achieving genuine pleasure but merely canceling out an underlying depression and boredom. Moreover, Philip contends, the habitual user becomes so preoccupied with the drug mystique and the subculture attending it that the effect is a narrowing of consciousness and a focusing of attention upon the drug world instead of the real one. This type of user may claim that he becomes more creative, but actually he becomes less productive, focusing entirely upon the present and ignoring...
...shoe industry," says Congressman James A. Burke of Massachusetts, a chief promoter of curbs, "is seeking a reasonable solution such as quotas based on the 1968 import levels, perhaps allowing for a 5% increase per year." Industry spokesmen claim that expanding imports of leather and vinyl shoes-mostly from Italy and Japan -have for years absorbed all the growth in the U.S. market. Since 1955, imports have risen from 8,000,000 pairs representing only a 1% share of the domestic market to last year's 175 million pairs, or about 21% of the market. "No other industry that...