Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomat who can claim to have bested the U.S.S.R.'s Premier Nikita Khrushchev in a face-to-face cold-war skirmish is Careerman James W. Riddleberger. Time: May 1955. Place: Belgrade, at a Yugoslav dinner party in honor of visiting Premier Khrushchev. Busy at his favorite party game of U.S. baiting, Khrushchev attacked the U.S.'s "positions of strength" policy. Retorted U.S. Ambassador Riddleberger: "I had some personal experience with Soviet efforts to act from a position of strength. I was in Berlin during the blockade." Khrushchev switched to deploring the sad plight of the workers...
...definition of his Alexandria holdings as farm land-and listed it for expropriation at his own low tax valuation of $2,800,000. Egypt's $87 million for expropriated lands is already earmarked for other British claimants; furthermore, Smouha's solicitors were pressing a market-value claim of $30 million. Britain faced the prospect of having to pay for Nasser's single biggest expropriation of British landholdings out of its own resources. "Hoodwinked in a deal that had all the elements of the Middle East bazaar business," gasped London's News Chronicle...
...claim it is the role of the press to take the technical matters of science and translate them into ordinary lay language, and to present the scientist as a person. The press has been completely negligent in its duty...
...seems definitely yes. On the one hand, Harvard graduates are socially critical people, and trite though it may sound, a rudimentary knowledge of science helps provide insight in dealing with political and social issues which scientific developments continually thrust upon us. Just as important, however, is that Harvard's claim to turn out graduates with a modicum of education seems only justified if students are introduced to the basic approaches of science...
Handing Dartmouth two third-period goals within eleven seconds, the varsity sextet formally surrendered any claim to the Ivy League title last night, losing its first League home game since 1952 by a 4-3 score...