Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harlem audience, he would have sent the paratroops to Little Rock in 24 hours rather than waiting three weeks as Republican Eisenhower did. "Is that right, Mr. President?" demanded Ave in one of those of-course lines. But Truman threw away the script, ducked behind the claim that he "wouldn't have had all this trouble." Said he: "I'm not reading anybody out of the Democratic Party. We want all the people in our column that we can get. We need them...
...stayed out of the line of fire while they sent forth their male secretaries to bop one another with chairs and lunch boxes. Socialists, stirring up the ruckus inside the Diet and labor leaders calling a general strike outside it, were, said Kishi, threatening the parliamentary democracy "which you claim to cherish." But they were not the only opponents of the bill. Throughout Japan last week, responsible men and women with vivid memories of the days when the police could arrest and torture as part of the government's thought-control policy began to speak out. Among them were...
...even her staunchest supporters would claim that Tebaldi is a great or even a highly gifted actress. A tall (5 ft. 10 in.), ample woman with a handsome, highbrowed face, she generally moves through her roles with a kind of stolid and unvarying grace that sometimes reduces opera's garish-hued passions to a decorator's cool blues and whites...
Local football followers will doubtless read with surprise this morning the results of this week's Associated Press football poll. Astonishing as it may seem, the so-called experts whose opinions are recorded by the A.P., have completely ignored the rightful claim of Harvard to be recognized as the best football team in the country...
...Coast; and on one of the most legendary Antarctic journeys, he was the only survivor among three men, at one point had to stew his sledge dogs to stay alive. In 1929 he made a third expedition that rough-mapped the coastline of Australia's Australia-sized land claim in Antarctica...