Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...below the ground. Engineers expect that the bomb will create a huge cavity, and heat the sand and oil. A little sand will glassify on the cavity's sides. Then they hope that the oil will be thin enough for piping to the surface. Experts claim that no radioactive hazards to man will result from the planned explosion. If the Athabaska sands yield their treasure, an estimated 300 billion bbl. of crude can be freed in that region alone...
...political reasons, the unbeaten U.S.S.R. team refused to play Nationalist China at the world basketball championships in Santiago. Chile, thereby forfeited its claim to the title. Brazil was declared champion, with a second-rate U.S. Air Force team runner-up. ¶ For the third straight year, World Champions David Jenkins, 22, and Carol Heiss. 19, skated rings around the opposition, scored victories in the national senior figure skating championships at Rochester...
...voguish term "missile gap" unfortunately seems an accurate summary of our position compared to the Soviets'. According to our Secretary of Defense, Neil McElroy, there is little need to worry; we are adequately supplied with the latest weapons. But the Soviets claim they are already mass producing ICBM's; Senator Stuart Symington has introduced figures which reveal a large Soviet lead; Werner von Braun reports that we are three years behind the Russians in developing our missiles, and intelligence estimates themselves show that the United States is soon going to fall well behind the U.S.S.R. in its missile arsenal...
...arrived at is an amusing one for someone to go into some day; I had thirty minutes to make up my mind on this one, and fear the result sounds a little pompous.")--a view of contemporary culture and urban life in America. ("Urban life is all I really claim to know anything about.") Kronenberger is working on a follow-up along the same lines "if I can find enough to say that is really new, and not just repetition...
...Conant's claim that "comprehensive schools" should replace technical or specialized schools applies only to non-urban areas, according to McCabe. "In the city there are enough students for technical schools like Rindge, and there is a need for specialization within comprehensive schools...