Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laetrile believers are unlikely to lose faith even if the drug flunks tests on humans conducted by Sloan-Kettering or the National Cancer Institute. They will claim that the tests were "fixed" because the experimenters were "biased...
Although new "insight" into the operations of our CIA [June 20] may be a long-awaited victory for the press and interesting information for readers, who in his right mind can claim that this big publicity push is good...
Dawson, a dusty county seat in the rich, red clay farm land of southeast Georgia, proclaims itself the "Spanish Peanut Capital of the World." Just how long the town (pop. 5,383) can maintain that claim, however, is in doubt. This spring's rainfall was barely 6.4 in., one-third of what it was last year. The peanut plants, normally large and verdant, the size of trash-can tops with diminutive yellow flowers nestled in their leaves, are Frisbee size, no more than 12 in. wide, and wilting. As for Dawson's usually rich crop of corn, folk...
...collided with a garbage truck, and now the state, having determined that she was to blame, was demanding $34.15 to cover the cost of cleaning up the highway. When her widowed husband failed to reply, the state filed suit against Mrs. Toner in Windsor's small claims court. With that Donald Toner asked Attorney James Throwe to fight the claim-and Throwe simply released the story of the suit to the local papers. Embarrassed, Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso last week deplored the incident as "unfortunate and regrettable" and asked the department of transportation to withdraw the suit...
...champions of progressive causes since before historians dignified those years as an "era." Luscomb and DuPont had shared the days when advocating reform often meant speaking from soapboxes to mangy dogs and small boys on universal suffrage, civil rights for Americans of every race and color, and the claim each man or woman had to earning a decent wage...