Word: claiming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Chief bench-warmer and ex-Indy sports editor David Smith was absent from the contest. Although not confirmed, rumors claim that the hockey writer was still trying to thumb back from St. Louis where he watched the Harvard icemen dance with grandeur and then leave him behind. He was last seen sitting under the soaring arch in St. Louis next to the Mississippi...
...addition, the lack of success of affirmative action at the graduate schools is particularly reproachable since it is these schools that feed candidates into the applicant pool for junior faculty positions. The claim that women and minorities do not receive faculty appointments because there is such a paucity of qualified applicants is hypocritical when placed against the meager attempts to recruit women and minorities into the graduate programs and lower level positions...
Norris and Ross McWhirter acknowledge no limits to their distrust. In 22 years compiling 13 editions of the Guinness Book of World Records--which they insist is "not like Ripley's Believe it or Not"--they have learned that no unauthenticated claim can be accepted, that "the strictures which apply to giants apply equally to dwarfs, except that exaggeration gives way to understatement." The strictures even apply to the McWhirter family. It is not that Ross McWhirter disbelieves his grandfather. He simply wants to state the fact correctly...
...their book's implacable esthetics, the brothers retain their faith in human nature. In their conversation, there are none of those Biblical-sounding references to vanity, deceit and deliberate fraud. "Generally speaking." Norris remarked last week, putting down his fork, "when people claim a thing they are telling the truth...
Nolen, who practices surgery in Luchfield, Minn. (pop. 5,262), admits that psychic cures can be impressive. He watched as people in a Minneapolis auditorium flocked onstage to claim that they had been cured by Faith Healer Kathryn Kuhlman, who is neither an ordained minister nor a physician but heads a Pittsburgh-based foundation that bears her name. Followup, however, showed that Kuhlman's cures were something less than miraculous. Sufferers from migraine headaches, which are often caused by emotional problems, did feel relief after the healing service. So did people with bursitis, a painful but transient joint inflammation...