Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lieutenants took their own lives, usually by hanging, in the early days of Alexander Dubček's regime. Shortly after the Stalinist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948, the Communists announced that Wartime Leader Jan Masaryk, son of Tomás, had jumped out of a window-a claim that seemed credible to many Czechoslovaks despite evidence that he was pushed. Many of Palach's mourners compared him to Jan Hus, the 15th century martyr who chose death at the stake rather than recant his religious views...
...dominated by three huge crystal chandeliers. The delegates assembled around a 26-foot-diameter table, almost double the size of the one used in an earlier procedural conference. The U.S. and the South Vietnamese, each placing eight representatives at the rim, sat as one delegation, in line with their claim for a two-sided conference. The Communists left a noticeable gap between Hanoi's group of eight and the National Liberation Front's seven delegates to make their point for a four-sided gathering. There were no handshakes, no formal greetings, with the exception of a slight...
...heads torn off. If they go through a Jewish neighborhood, half the population will be joining in, and the other half will be falling on the ground flagellating themselves." Selecting the Jew as a scapegoat fills an important psychic need for the black. To bait the Jew is to claim superiority to the Jew?and to identify with a white community that still contains elements of antiSemitism...
...additional speed of the Harvard Computation Center's new IBM 360/65 is not needed, and IBM computers frequently do not work, some professors and graduate students in the Harvard Computing Center claim...
...have pressed on you my view of our recent history not to claim that...