Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harry Parker, the Washington meet provided just what he wanted: another proof for his claim that this year, with an undefeated season, only the Crimson can say "number one" and mean...
...caught the world by surprise. It was odd for a diplomat who prides himself on his reserves of humor and self-control to indulge in such a public baring of his anger and frustration. And it left startled observers wondering whether the pervasive suspicions spawned by Watergate would finally claim the best and brightest the Administration had to offer...
...look like another long, hot summer in the troubled relations between China and Russia. For the past few months the two nations have been engaged in a vituperative duel over the Chinese capture of a Soviet helicopter that strayed across the border into Sinkiang last March. The Soviets claim that the helicopter, with its three-man crew, was on a medical rescue mission when it lost its bearings over the Altai Mountains. The Chinese insist that the chopper "carried arms and reconnaissance equipment" and was involved in "espionage activities." Since their capture, the luckless Soviet crewmen have been paraded through...
Peking is unconvinced. One reason is that the Soviets have recently engaged in harassment of Chinese shipping near the Manchurian border. Late last month the Russians threatened to prevent Chinese boats from using the Ussuri and Amur rivers at the point where they converge. The Soviets claim that the border between the two countries is formed by the narrow Kazakevicheva Channel, which joins the two rivers about 20 miles south of their actual convergence near the Soviet city of Khabarovsk. In a stiff diplomatic note to Peking, the Russians said that they were "ready as before" to allow Chinese ships...
...such speculator, Chicago Attorney David R. Gray, bought Mrs. Ware's $41.57 bill-the last of ten annual installments on a special assessment for the paving of an alley behind her home. There is significant doubt about Mrs. Ware's claim that she was never notified by Gray that she owed him the taxes. But her lawyers have pointed out that in 1968, when she was hospitalized with a heart condition, she asked a lawyer to check out her tax liabilities; he found a $500 debt for general taxes, which was promptly paid, and he missed the paving...