Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a success greater than any Backhouse could claim in the Imperial court, Trevor-Roper penetrates the mystery of the self-styled Hermit of Peking. But what is so fascinating about this book, what makes it so immensely readable, is not merely the catalogue of Backhouse's many frauds, of which the fabrication of Ching-Shan's diary is not even the greatest, but Trevor-Ropor's personal involvement in the story...
...Roger Daltrey has only recently distinguished himself as a unique musical being. Daltrey doesn't claim to be a songwriter; indeed, it is common knowledge that Peter Townsend writes the music and plays all the instruments into a fourtrack tape machine, then brings the recorded piece into the studio for John, Roger and Krazy Keith to turn...
Cost The critics' claim that the volunteer military is responsible for the soaring costs of defense manpower is "plainly incorrect," says Cooper. Thus far, he reports, "the volunteer force has added less than $300 million to the budget cost of defense manpower-about two-tenths of 1% of the defense budget." While spending for defense personnel did rise from about $22 billion in 1964 to more than $50 billion in 1976, in part because of the higher pay scale, the primary cause was the higher cost of civilian defense employees and a military retirement system enacted...
However interesting their troubles along the way, the legendary Tristan and Isolde would exert but small claim on anyone's imagination if, in the end, they were permitted to settle down in a split level to raise 2.4 children and give each other head colds. Death is, of course, the thing that finally and definitively separates lovers in our culture's greatest romances...
...their proprietors (Bristol-Myers' Ipana toothpaste) or dedicated outright to public use (Du Font's nylon). Paradoxically, some of the most successful trademarks have been lost because of their very popularity; they became so firmly entrenched in the language that no single company could still legitimately claim ownership. Over the years, such casualties have included mimeograph, linoleum, cellophane, elevator, escalator, raisin bran and cola...