Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irony of this passage is Spiro Agnew's implied claim that he's writing a novel that is more than just popular fiction. Through his most intelligent, honest, noble characters he is trying to say that the situation he has created rises above the mundane, ordinary plot concoctions of pop novels. If the language doesn't clue you in, that fact that Zack and Amiri fall deeply and irrevocably in love in no time flat, and that this passage is an example of their wittiest repartee should tell you that Agnew's implied claim isn't quite true...
...Greeks, however, went further and used victories on the athletic field to claim superiority over rival cities. This may have made some sense since superiority was measured by the physical strength and skill of soldiers. Today when such superiority claims are ridiculous, this national pride is what endangers the Olympic games. We have reached the point when individual athletes are becoming secondary to the interests of their countries. Politics become involved when participant nations see the Olympics as a threat to their reputations and there are always problems when national Olympic committees exercise control over athletes to avoid embarassment...
Natchul English. Some South Georgians respond to questions about-or criticism of-such accents by protesting, "It's the closest thang on God's green earth to the King's natchul English." Linguist Pederson agrees that the claim does have a certain validity. The North was largely settled by immigrants who learned English as a second language and were heavily dependent on the written word, he notes. Southerners, on the other hand, have always relied on the spoken word. "In that respect, Southern speech is closer to the native speech of England," concludes Pederson, and often...
...another front also. Says one Western diplomat in Beirut: "They missed a real opportunity to show the world that even temporarily they could run a de facto emergency government based on sanity, justice and efficiency." Even the fact that the Palestinians protect the U.S. embassy in Beirut-and claim to have arrested the killers of Ambassador Francis Meloy and his aide-has not offset that failure. Moreover, the cancellation of a U.S. convoy out of Beirut last week because the Palestinians said they could not guarantee its safety, may be further evidence of the Palestinians' weakening position...
...West Germans almost certainly face problems since their team includes members from West Berlin. The Soviets contend that West Berlin is an independent political entity and must have no ties with West Germany. And what about Israel? The Arabs claim that Israel is illegally occupying Palestinian soil. Would the Soviets invite a team from the P.L.O. and bar the Israelis? Even if only a small part of this scenario developed, what might be the U.S. response...