Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite a different cause. At that time, the dispute, as so often in the past, focused on the status of Berlin and the plan of the West German government to convene an electoral college there this week to choose the new President for the Federal Republic. The West Germans claim that the western half of the divided city is part of the Federal Republic. In their opinion, the convocation of the Federal Assembly there symbolizes West Berlin's political inclusion in West Germany. But the Soviets and East Germans maintain that West Berlin is a separate political entity that...
...others' ignorance to make their own living. In a typical case, an illiterate woman came to Legal Aid because she had been tricked into putting up the deed to her home as security for $700 worth of household repairs. After the repairs were completed, a loan company claimed that with interest and other charges she actually owed $1,900. When the company threatened to take over her home, Bill Ide, one of the Legal Aid volunteers, promptly filed suit for his client. Charging contractor and loan company with a "fraudulent conspiracy," Ide asked for $25,000 in punitive damages...
...sensibility. This quality is perhaps best illustrated by Haldane's conversion to vegetarianism under the impact of the Hindu doctrine of transmigrating souls. "Once you teach evolutionary biology to people with the Indian ideological background," he observed, "the distinction between eating goats and cannibalism appears rather thin. My claim to a more immortal soul than a goat's is not strong enough to justify me in eating the goat...
Hefty Gary Farneti rocked Dunster's Bill Mahoney for three consecutive rounds yesterday afternoon in the final bout of the House Boxing Tournament in the IAB to claim the unlimited class title and pile extra points on Quincy House's winning lead...
...twin tests of "reasonableness" and "non-discrimination" have become, after numerous CAB and court rulings, the Scylla and Charybdis between which any proposed fare must chart a course in order to gain approval. Non-discrimination is, of course, the test that the court and the Examiner claim Youth Fare does not pass. But the question of "reasonableness" is also worth looking at, if only to dispel the misconceptions of those who resented Youth Fare...