Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, having established that the Jefferson Airplane combines both complexity and kinetics, Williams can claim that they are indeed a very good group, and he has very sound and convincing grounds for saying...
...Chinese call it Chen Pao, or Treasure. The Russians call it Damansky. Both claim the tiny, uninhabited island, located in the midst of the frozen Ussuri river that forms the common border of Communism's premier countries. Precisely what happened there last week, in the bleak, snow-swept wilderness of eastern Asia, may never be fully known. Only Moscow has offered the world a reasonably detailed-but doubtless in part self-serving-account. Both Moscow and Peking agree, however, that the violence along the Ussuri was for several hours as close to war as the two countries have come...
...early 1960s, however, trouble began to flare in the northeast. "Since June 1962," notes a Soviet Foreign Ministry official, Mikhail S. Kapitsa, "provocations on the borders of the U.S.S.R. have become systematic." For their part, the Chinese claim that in the past two years alone, Soviet border guards intruded onto Chen Pao 16 times. According to Peking, nearby Chiliching and Kapotzu islands have also suffered such intrusions "on many occasions." The Chinese also charge that Soviet aircraft frequently violate their airspace. In the past three years, Moscow has built up its strength along its Asian borders to an estimated...
...ruling that broadcasters must give free time to commercials warning of the dangers of cigarettes. The Tobacco Institute has also opened a six-week nationwide campaign of newspaper ads reiterating the industry's defense that "there is no demonstrated causal relationship between smoking and any disease"-a claim that a spokesman for the Government's National Interagency Council on Smoking and Health describes as "typical hokum...
...about Wood's ability. Krapp is the only character in the play, making it difficult to determine how much of the credit for its success belongs to Woods and how much to his director, Judith Ebenstein. But there were several pieces of brilliant improvisation that clearly established his claim to a lion's share...