Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...types of chessplayers. There are the masters, grand, international and otherwise, and then there are the patzers. The patzers are the people who fill out the minor leagues of chess--people like your kindly old uncle who taught you the moves when you were eight years old. People who claim to play for fun, not blood...
...claim that the Rockeye II is solely "anti-tank" is an old one. It is an out-and-out lie. According to a 1966 Congressional hearing, "the Rockeye II is a cluster bomb which contains anti-tank and anti-personnel bomblets" (emphasis added). It has been used by the thousands against the most populous areas of North Vietnam (American Report, 12/4/74). In the summer of 1972 the New York Times reported that the Rockeye II had been dropped on villages and hospitals. Would Honeywell have us believe that tanks stream through the streets of residential sections of Hanoi and Haiphong...
...their respective numbers. Then, when the faculty released the grades along with the student code numbers, those students representatives would make sure that only those who failed identified themselves. That way, the faculty would have no choice but to record simply pass grades for all students who did not claim their numbers...
...into the suburbs and vice-versa. The suburban school boards have appealed the decision. They contend that the federal government cannot require that their school children be bused, since the localities have not been guilty of intentionally segregating black from white students. The 84 suburban school districts surrounding Detroit claim a metropolitan busing order, in the absence of a demonstrated intent to segregate, is an unwarranted intrusion into their local government's legitimate authority...
...general opinion among political analysts that the British general election was called as a result of the miners' strike. Once the miners refused to put their claim before an independent board, the argument goes, the government had no alternative but to reinforce its authority with a renewed mandate from the electorate. Given that if the present government wins, it will settle with the miners and give them what they want--a fact which nobody, even in Conservative circles denies--then the issue of "Who Governs Britain" will be shown to be stupid. All that one can say is that...