Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could go further, into the works of Arnold Toynbee, unpopular today with professional historians, but in fact a highly perceptive social and political critic, as well as the author of a powerful claim that religious faith provides the chief cultural foundation for civilization. Throughout the horrible years of the still-continuing Indochina War, Toynbee's warning cry for peace has been heard alongside those of the Berrigans and the Quakers and the various experts on Communism who could see that the most damaging and unwelcome intrusion in Southeast Asia was that of Western colonialism. If one looks for the origins...
...defending the Viet Nam War. Today, conservatives are more worried about church doctrine, liturgy and education. The biblical imbroglio, for instance, focuses on such questions as the literal reality of the Virgin birth, the nature of original sin, the historical accuracy of the Resurrection accounts and even, conservatives claim, the deity of Jesus Christ...
...winner of the Cup will hold unchallenged ranking as the planet's best soccer team. In a sport that is actively played by 16 million people on 600,000 teams in 141 countries-six more than belong to the U.N.-that is no minor claim. Indeed, a large part of the world takes time out for the Cup. Since the final rounds began in West Germany three weeks ago, Rio de Janeiro factories have shut down, and criminal activities in the city have hit an alltime low. In Rome, efforts to restore a moribund government were disrupted when three...
...promising position in an art gallery turns into a prolonged pass from her porcine boss, who chats her up by quoting Reich on the sexual revolution. Her husband announces plans for remarriage, Elisabeth suspects, just to bolster his claim to custody of their son. Under the accumulated weight of legal problems and the meager life she has managed to make for herself, she finally gives in and falls into the arms of the engineer. He is a decent sort who suggests they marry. The security of marriage, he points out, will make everything easier for her again. She may even...
...later to become a fugitive from federal prosecution. The story called the development a "new bombshell." In fact, the source was the fallen financier, Bernard Cornfeld, a Vesco enemy fresh out of jail himself. His account lacked proof that the meeting had taken place; even Cornfeld did not claim firsthand knowledge of it. The New York Times last January front-paged a long piece revealing an investigation into the possibility that Bahamian gambling money had found its way into the Nixon campaign kitty. The article was crammed with suspicious names and impressive figures, but no proof of wrongdoing had been...