Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could not remember dates, could not recall Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt's name, and who forgot that another of the convicted conspirators, G. Gordon Liddy, was in prison. In the transcripts, Nixon made few decisions, issued few orders and almost never exhibited the quick, encyclopedic mind that associates claim...
When Perón appeared on a balcony overlooking the square, he disdainfully observed the mayhem beneath him, abandoned his prepared text, and called the demonstrators "jerks." "Today we see that a bunch of adolescents would claim more merit than those who have fought for 20 years," he declared. In pro test, the leftists began leaving the plaza -closely pursued by right-wing Peronistas, who chased them down side streets, beating them with bamboo staves. The day's toll: 90 wounded...
...Large numbers of Westerners have come to accept the idea that acupuncture can help alleviate pain. But doctors have expressed doubts about another claim advanced for the ancient Oriental art: needle wielding can relieve nerve deafness, a hearing loss caused by damage to the cranial nerve that serves the ear. Their skepticism has been bolstered by two new reports...
...even the most hostile critic could ever claim that the transcribers turned to Stein without deep prior consideration--without initial recourse to a more modern style seemingly well suited to their dark vision of the obscurity of life. "That's tough," their president tells his press secretary, halfway through March 27, and the tape rolls...
...next day, about 20 National Guardsmen marching up a hill away from an antiwar demonstration wheeled and fired at the crowds. They said a sniper had started it, but no one else ever found any evidence of that, and an FBI report later found that the Guard's claim "that their lives were endangered by the students was fabricated subsequent to the event...