Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Justice Department did send representatives, not of its Civil Rights Division, but of its less effective Community Relations Service, to Byhalia last August. Boycott leaders claim that CRS agents harassed participants in the boycott, tried to discredit black leaders and even urged blacks to resume shopping in white-owned Byhalia stores. The leaders also charge that CRS men frequently slipped money to black winos and steered them in the direction of white-owned package stores. CRS agents deny that they harassed anyone or bribed, winos. In any case, the boycott shows no signs of losing steam. The FBI has found...
...were preparing to play the Washington Bullets. In that three-ring atmosphere, the management appropriately promised that costumed "clowns will perform throughout the game." The unintended reference ultimately proved embarrassing to the Pistons. Treating them like part of the sideshow, the Bullets won by 25 points and reinforced the claim that under the N.B.A.'s big top they are now the main attraction...
When he was an impoverished law student and she a radiant Portia in a touring Shakespeare company, they spent three delirious days together. It was, Laurence Olivier says, the love of his life, exerting such a powerful hold that he had no choice thereafter but bachelorhood. Katharine Hepburn claims she can't remember a thing about it, but since he is now London's leading barrister, perhaps he will stop his nostalgic mooning and get on with the business of defending the excellent name and fortune she married. Can anyone, after all, seriously believe that she promised...
...that the recommendations of the Strauch Committee may be rubber-stamped through the Faculty and the Governing Boards of Harvard and Radcliffe because they have long been expected, one hard reality remains: If the admissions offices are merged, Radcliffe College and its Trustees will be giving up the last claim they have to women undergraduates in the University...
...undefeated Crimson aquamen begin the final push of their campaign to claim supremacy in Eastern swimming today as the Eastern Seaboard Swimming Championships open in Hanover...