Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tweedy, horn-rimmed middle-aged man atoned to his wife, "God, he looks worn." The introductory applause kept Bond on his feet for almost five minutes. The air was hot and tense with excitement as people recovered the seats that many of them had come two hours earlier to claim...
Since rugby has a club status at Harvard, there is no incentive for varsity letters or League championships. But Harvard ruggers claim that if the sport were formalized and the team had to adhere to regular practice sessions, cuts, and training rules, the essence of Harvard rugby would be destroyed. "Most of the boys love the friendly informality of the game," Harvard captain Sione Tupounuia said last week, "and this would make them reluctant to see it changed to a varsity sport...
...correspondents one month earlier. Hubert Humphrey led in only six states and the District of Columbia, down four (Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri and Tennessee) from his September showing. In some of those, including New York and his home state of Minnesota, his margin was precarious. George Wallace could claim six Southern states, having picked up two (Arkansas and South Carolina). The breakdown...
...Plot? In any showdown with the fedayeen, Hussein can count on the loyalty of Jordan's 20,000 Bedouins, whom he has recently been placing in army units, but not on his politicians. Last week angry fedayeen leaders called on Hussein's Prime Minister, Bahjat Talhouni, to claim that they had discovered a palace plot to arrest some commandos and pressure politicians to cease supporting them. As Palestinian refugees braced for battle, the Cabinet sided with the fedayeen, conceding them full freedom of movement and promising to resign en masse should the plan go through...
...Window. The U.F.T. took newspaper ads to claim that its fight was really against "vigilantism, hate propaganda and terror in the schools." No doubt extremists in Ocean Hill had recklessly and needlessly inflamed the situation. No doubt the union had a point when it argued that its members stood to lose painfully gained job security if local committees were totally free to hire and fire teachers. Yet many New Yorkers were outraged by Shanker's own extremist rhetoric and by his arrogance in tying up the entire 1,100,000-pupil system over a dispute at one school...