Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter faced Congress last week for his State of the Union address, he confronted one of the most serious political problems of his presidency: his inability to lay claim to the unshakable support of any single constituency. Even though the legislative branch is filled with members of his own party, they received his speech with almost as little enthusiasm as they showed the pariah Richard Nixon in his last State of the Union message...
...wellbeing, a pair of tired feet and an intense inflammation of the non-jogger. Though no one seems to know exactly why runners and nonrunners have developed such an intense public loathing for each other, Pollster Lou Harris has a rough idea of how many troops each camp can claim: there are 17.1 million runners and joggers in America, 8 million of whom, reports Harris, are certain that nonrunners consider them "oddballs" and "nuts," and 73 million people who think joggers do indeed tend to be fanatics. Says Harris: "The runners and joggers are well aware of others' thinking...
...highly active Americans say that exercise has improved their sex life, "a claim," admits Harris, "we could not check out in this study...
...portrait were hundreds of thousands of pictures of the man whose single-minded determination had at last succeeded in bringing down the Shah. The exiled leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, had become both symbol and architect of the Iranian revolution, and presumably was weighing the appropriate moment to return to claim his due. Within hours, virtually every public square and boulevard once named for the Shah had been renamed for Khomeini...
Lucy was not much more than a meter tall (just under 4 ft.), suffered from arthritis and had a head like an ape. But last week she became a front-page celebrity. Anthropologist Donald Carl Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History called a press conference to claim that Lucy* is Australopithecus afarensis, a new species in man's evolutionary lineage. He put her age at 3.5 million years, which makes her younger than man's earliest known ancestor, Ramapithecus, who lived 10 million to 14 million years ago. But Johanson said Lucy came before the hominids...