Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collective as well as individual views of the 38 committee members on the nature of impeachable presidential conduct and the kind of evidence required for impeachment. As such, it was a unique guide for future Congresses, historians and constitutional scholars. The report also effectively undermined any current or future claim that Nixon was merely a victim of partisan politics or his ideological enemies...
Such relentless optimism provides ready ammunition to those who would prefer to gloss over genuine problems. Statistics documenting what Wallenberg, in a dreadful stylislic lapse, calls the "deeliticization of American higher education," say nothing about the quality of life on campus. Nor does the claim that aimless retirement or a dreary nursing 'home are belter for the elderly than "dying in the traces" provide much comfort for hungry old people languishing on park benches...
...undoubtedly have to decide for yourself what Radcliffe "means," particularly because the 1971 non-merger-merger contract will be reviewed during your freshman year. When people ask you where you go to college, will you say Harvard, or Radcliffe? Some women, even those who are not militantly anti-merger, claim Radcliffe as their school simply because the feeling of being an outsider is inescapable and supercedes the fact that Radcliffe only admits you while Harvard will teach you and give you a degree...
...percentage of women in the college is rising, Radcliffe is gradually merging with Harvard, and rarely do professors admit they would prefer to teach only men. But administrators still claim openly that the college must continue to admit many more men than women because the rich and powerful men will donate generously to Harvard's endowment. Women, they say, will raise children and let their husband do the donating...
...press conferences in his last year, Nixon said: "I have a quality which I guess I must have inherited from my Midwestern mother and father, which is that the tougher it gets, the cooler I get." Many who knew him well doubted that claim. They saw, or thought they saw, rage and consuming bitterness beneath the façade. But he did display amazing endurance and (with a few lapses) a remarkable public calm during more than a year of savage at tacks and adversity...