Word: claims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think that students, and people like me, are terribly isolated from the very people we claim we want to help. Students want more money in the welfare program, they want better housing and more jobs for these people, but they don't know the people, but they don't see life the way people do in Roxbury--people who, regardless of our explanations of American society, have to contend with that society rather than analyze it, who do not have the luxury of long-range historical and social critiques...
...such powers have been reserved to the three Western allies under the terms of a 1955 treaty. Supporters of the bill claim that the new law would only make Germans the masters of their own house in times of national emergency. But students and other opponents insist that, despite many safeguards in the bill, the new law could lead to a repetition of 1933, when Hitler, invoking broad executive powers long since done away with, suspended the Weimar Constitution and made him self a dictator...
Rumanians have long had a sort of national crush on France. Though surrounded by Slavs, they claim direct descent from the Roman colonizers to whom they owe their Latin character...
Hypnosis is surrounded by a persistent myth: whatever a subject says while in a trance represents the real, deep-down truth. Lawyers have always been wary of the claim, although lately some have changed their minds. On film and videotape, psychiatric sessions with murder defendants under the influence of hypnotism and so-called "truth drugs" are being shown in U.S. courtrooms (TIME, Dec. 29, April 12). Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Boston, New York's Dr. Herbert Spiegel warned that such evidence is dubious indeed...
Because aluminum alloy is also stiffer than steel, top players who have used the new racket claim to get better control on volleys, lobs and drop shots. "The ball doesn't fly off the surface as it does with steel," says the U.S.'s Dennis Ralston who, along with South Africa's Cliff Drysdale, plans to use the aluminum racket on this year's pro tour...