Word: claims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with it sidearm, like the Cincinnati Reds' great Ewell Blackwell used to do. With your whiplash delivery and your arms and legs flailing, you look like a man fighting his way out of a plastic bag. What's more, some of the players around the National League claim you're a "headhunter" because you've led the league in hit batsmen five times. And the other night when you blanked the San Francisco Giants 3-0, their manager, Herman Franks, insisted you were throwing a "Vaseline ball"-doctoring it with grease to make it jump around...
...specialization in the field. Partly out of practical necessity, universities generally agree that a teacher's color is irrelevant in matters of scholarship. "You don't need a Greek to teach Greek or a Communist to teach Marx," contends Rutgers Provost Richard Schlatter. Anyone with a valid claim to expertise in black studies can just about choose his campus. Brooklyn College has created a chair in Afro-American studies, offering up to $31,000 a year, but has yet to find an occupant...
CHARLES DE GAULLE has always laid claim to an extraordinary, almost mystical empathy with the French people. As France lay gripped by the worst economic paralysis in its peacetime history and cries for his resignation echoed in the streets of every major French city and town, that claim seemed destined, along with his once-proud Fifth Republic, for the dustbin of history. But last week, summoning all his genius for leadership, De Gaulle once more commanded the French people to heed his will for France. Astonishingly, once again they listened...
...McCowen, is followed by a dozen others as Rolfe seizes the reins of Vatican government with reforming zeal. With curious prescience, Rolfe's vision anticipates changes that took place in the Catholic Church half a century later. Pope Hadrian shakes the Curia to its foundation by renouncing all claim to temporal sovereignty, and defies tradition by walking through the streets to his coronation. He sells the Vatican treasures and gives the proceeds to the poor. Homelier touches include Hadrian giving an audience to a charwoman who had once befriended the "spoiled priest" and who now brings...
...delegates, who came from 117 of the 156 U.S. dioceses, claim that the federation will represent 37,000 of the nation's parish priests. Mostly moderate activists, they chose as president the Rev. Patrick O'Malley, 36, administrator of a ghetto-area parish in Chicago, who insists that the organization "is well within the spirit of Vatican II," meaning specifically the democratic sense of "collegiality" that has developed in the postconciliar church. "The bishop is no longer king," said O'Malley. "We don't have to ask permission to undertake our projects...