Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Undaunted, Prince Hilarion decides to make good his claim on Princess Ida's affections and, accompanied by his two friends Cyril and Florian, scales the walls of Castle Adamant--which serves as the university's campus. The three are, of course, openly scornful of the whole idea. Florian seems to speak for Gilbert when he says. "A woman's college! Maddest folly going! What can girls learn within its walls worth knowing?...I'll teach them twice as much in half an hour outside...
...Pamir a, the doomed daughter of the governor of Corinth, Sills successfully re-established her claim as the most radiant and musical of prima donnas. The dilemmas that Pamira finds herself in would try even Aida, and Sills rose to them all. Briefly, Pamira loves Maometto (Bass Justino Diaz), the leader of the attacking Turks. Her father wants her to marry the Greek warrior Neocle (Mezzo Verrett...
...other hand, he is philosophically attuned to the Kissinger claim that the worldwide credibility of the U.S. was vitally at stake in Viet...
...names once more is like suffering a relapse of some virulent disease. It is impossible for Americans to regard the flow of refugees and the anguish of the orphans without pangs of sorrow and even outrage. Every image of a bewildered child, of a weeping mother, makes a claim on the conscience. However disastrous the final results, most Americans once sincerely felt that they were aiding these people. Now one cannot escape the obvious question: If the long American presence in Viet Nam was misguided, is the American absence now also to become a national nightmare? Must Americans feel...
...spokesman in Jerusalem. As for their potential troubles with the U.S., Israeli officials seem to be pinning their hopes on the U.S. Congress. "It is our view," declared an aide to Premier Rabin, "that Congress will not let the President get away with punitive action against Israel." The Israelis claim that radical Arabs would interpret any reduction in U.S. aid as a sign of American weakness and a justification of their intransigent attitude toward the Jewish state. Jerusalem further insists that a strong Israel increases U.S. leverage in the Middle East...