Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alternating between the most hollow mouthings of salesmen's cliches and bizarre confessions of inferiority to his brother who went to MIT. And as he deteriorates, the other salesmen take their distance from him; they smell the Fear and it makes them uneasy, knowing it may be waiting to claim them in the next city...
...wait for some brief questioning. Convention officials make no secret of any of this. The next day, when the roll call for president reaches Maine, a debate between the state chairman and convention secretary ensues over whether Maine has paid $100 each for the number of delegates they claim...
Birmingham, of course, has not been totally transformed. "We don't make any claim that we've licked racism," says Mayor Vann, "but we've learned to face the problem candidly and not play games." City Councilman Richard Arrington complains that much of what has been done so far in Birmingham is "still very much tokenism." Arrington protests, for instance, that blacks "still have difficulty cracking the suburbs." Mayor Vann worries about white flight from the city; black leaders complain that Birmingham may not be able to provide jobs to match new expectations, and that housing integration...
Jones likes to claim that he turned to writing only when the Theater Center recruited more and more workers, leaving less and less for him to do. A Texas Trilogy was composed mostly after theater hours...
...still other letters, ones generally less favorable than those from strict conservatives, claim that the events at the rally and subsequent statements by Ebert--including a letter to 118 medical school deans calling Davis irresponsible--threatened Davis's academic freedom. Davis himself believes academic freedom is now the prime issue at stake. "The message seems to be," he says, "if you violate the taboo on public discussion of this subject you need not only risk misunderstanding but you risk excommunication. If such a policy is allowed to prevail in our universities what will be its effect on the future...