Word: claims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...educating some children--however small the number--who would otherwise have been destroyed by an oppressive system. More important for the long run, they feel they are making valuable experiments with new methods of education--a service which public schools have long since ceased to perform. Finally, they claim to be perfecting models of ghetto community schools which can be adapted to public systems, if and when the musty corridors are opened to fresh...
Members of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) threatened to sue the university if classes are disrupted. In a telegram sent to Chirst-Janer, they claim that if demonstrators are permitted to prevent them from attending classes, the university will have violated the contract made with students by accepting their tuition...
...News runners, who named themselves the Britton Hadden Striders, claim that they hold all records for the 72-mile dash to Pedro's in New York. One would expect a group of Yalies to have this distinction. But the Striders will be greeted with beef stew at the finish of Marathon, and this may be less of an incentive...
...year than the beginning of the next one). They affect a family's choice of where to live and whether to rent or buy a home. Any high-salaried executive forfeits a substantial tax saving today if he does not own a house, entitling him to claim tax deductions for both mortgage interest payments and realty taxes...
...from-the-cold novelists have schooled us all in the vileness of the espionage agent's world. Murder, kidnaping, blackmail and the theft of secrets, moreover, hardly appear to be the stuff of which peace is made. Yet there is much documented support for Hagen's claim. His main concern lies in Europe, and he makes a convincing case that since 1945, the balance of power there has been partially maintained through the growth, care and feeding of espionage agencies...