Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to be outgunned, possibly outwitted or, at the very least, shouted down, so the best you can do is hold your own and die honourably. If you try to show your liberal friends that you don't disagree that drastically with them on a certain issue, they immediately claim that you finally saw the light, and assume you have abandoned your conservatism...
...claim that I'm doing this exclusivelybecause of AWARE," Balogh said, adding that he hadshown the films last year as well. "I like tothink of myself as being aware for more than aweek...
...interest groups, however, claim to represent the bureaucracy. According to O'Bryant, the School Committee voted Tuesday night to approve the general idea of school-based management. And McKinnis says, "Parents would like to have things decentralized." Even School Superintendent Wilson is working on his own decentralization plan, according to Ian Forman, Wilson's public information officer...
...York City's Gambino crime family, John (Big John) Gotti survived a planned rubout by rival mobsters, a four-year prison term for attempted manslaughter, and a sensational eight-month trial in 1987 that led to his acquittal on racketeering charges. Last week he confronted what prosecutors claim to be the most formidable charges brought against the dapper reputed gangster since a murder indictment 15 years ago. Gotti claims he makes his living as a salesman for a plumbing company...
...tight, enameled technique could make any vision, no matter how outrageous, seem persuasively real. It fitted the central claim of surrealism that dreams were superior facts, the incarnation of desire and possibility. But it needed a system of images, and that is what Dali found through what he called his "critical-paranoiac" method. In essence, it meant looking at one thing and seeing another -- an extended version of the face seen in the fire. Heads turn into a distant city, a landscape resolves itself as a still life, inexplicable combinations are seen to lurk magically beneath the skin...