Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amazed, however, at the number of people who advised me to make claims for items beyond restoring my car. Even though I borrowed a car from a relative, I was told I should be paid for the use of another car. I was also told I should put in a claim for my suffering (I was paid for my doctor bills...
...talent beneath that flashy strobe-light exterior, which made its debut in Saturday Night Fever and is bound to make a few more starry-eyed fans in Grease and then who knows...Rumor has it that producers Robert Stigwood and Allan Carr held Grease until Travolta made his claim to fame in Saturday Night Fever. They apparently believed that Grease could be a bigger box office hit because everyone would be going to see Travolta, and not some rehash of a big Broadway...
...snowballed." She began tireless rounds of debating feminists, making appearances on talk shows and speaking at rallies. Ahead lies a bitter fight against the feminists' drive to win an extension of the amendment's deadline. Vows Schlafly: "We will bury ERA on March 22, 1979." Her opponents claim that she is using the ERA issue to aid her own career, but she denies having further ambitions for political office. Still, given her record, she seems unlikely to retire to hearth and home...
...tournament from putting a quarter of the world's population into a state of narcolepsy. FIFA, the august and powerful Federation Internationale de Football Association, has almost as many member countries as the United Nations (146 to 149) and probably more active communicants than any religion. Its officials claim that well over a billion people watched, in person or on TV, some part of the month-long World Cup, the eleventh such international competition (the first was held in Uruguay in 1930; 13 nations participated, and Uruguay won). Leaving aside the Chinese (who did not ante...
Many women claim that athletics increases their sex drive. "Exercise puts sparkle in a woman's eyes, pink in her cheeks and creates a physical vitality that almost bursts out," says Dr. Ullyot. "She becomes body centered and very sensual...