Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miserable levels of a year ago, when the energy crisis clobbered car sales. The rebates were largely responsible for the boost in sales from a dismal 93,235 cars in the first ten days of January to 133,000 cars during the second ten days of the month. Dealers claim that volume has climbed substantially since then. Tom Shanley, an American Motors executive responsible for sales in six Southern states, says that his dealers "have had the greatest increase in floor traffic since the end of the oil embargo last year...
Both teams are undefeated in Eastern competition. Princeton at 4-0 and Harvard at 5-0, and with the exception of the Harvard-Navy meet, both teams have crushed their unfortunate opposition Whichever team takes this meet will also win the Ivy swimming championship and can claim the title as the best swim team in the East...
...priority assigned to free expression by the nature of a university is to be maintained in practice, clearly the responsibility for maintaining that priority rests with its members. By voluntarily taking up membership in a university and thereby asserting a claim to its rights and privileges, members also acknowledge the existence of certain obligations upon themselves and their fellows. Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression...
...Alfred Stieglitz, who was, in Sherwood Anderson's words, "father to so many puzzled, wistful children of the arts in the big, noisy, growing and groping America." Like other "291" artists, Dove was a nature poet: he never contemplated going to the extreme of "pure" abstraction. "I can claim no background," he once reflected, "except perhaps the woods, running streams, hunting, fishing, camping...
...work didn't mean anything to me. But he did exactly what he wanted to do, every day for 85 years, and how many of us can claim that much?" In its way, that young Manhattan artist's comment on Thomas Hart Benton, who died of heart disease in his studio in Kansas City, Mo., last week, was not a bad epitaph. In the course of a career that spanned seven decades (from his first job as cartoonist for a local paper in Joplin), Benton became the most popular 20th century American artist. His belligerently folksy murals, full...