Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...client William Milligan [Oct. 23] informs me that it was Adelena, not Tommy, who wrote down the quoted poem, and that it was not an original. The lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin for an Elton John album Madman Across the Water. At no time did my client claim originality for the quote. Your reporter and, I must admit, I assumed that it was original, rather than a reflection of a song in a very disturbed young man's mind...
...also lost most traditional sources of Republican votes and funding because of King's end-run to claim the right wing of the political spectrum...
Spokesmen for Anheuser-Busch, Inc. claim the company offered to donate beer for the party because profits from the event would be donated to the Jimmy Fund, and they think "the cause is well worthwhile...
White House and State Department officials dispute Goldwater's claim that two-thirds of the Senate must approve cancellation of the treaty, but they say they have every intention of consulting with Congress before they make any major steps on China. And they do want to press ahead. Presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is eager to play what he has called the "China card" in the ongoing poker game of U.S. -Soviet relations (Moscow has already roared in protest against both the term and the concept). But Brzezinski and other policymakers realize that whenever they play the card, they...
...insisted in the letter that he embezzled nothing from the Bruces. Said he: "Everything that was found on my hands was either given to me by my wife or her brothers, or it was bought by me from her brothers after her death." (Alexandra's brother David denies this claim in an affidavit, filed in Jefferson County...