Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newcomers watched patiently until the others went ashore at nightfall. From that point on, no one was allowed on board the African Queen without their permission-and Lloyd Deir, 45, and Belden Little, 36, enforced the rule with their shotguns. Their purpose: to float the African Queen, claim her under maritime salvage laws and sell her as scrap for, they hoped, more than...
...temporarily looked clearer, the storm clouds were still piling up in the East. In New Delhi last week the Indian government put out a map showing in detail the extensive areas on its side of the Himalayas (including some 6,000 sq. mi. of Pakistan) that the Red Chinese claim and, in some cases, have seized by force of arms. The eight SEATO nations declared anew their determination to aid the kingdom of Laos against invasion from Communist North Viet Nam, and in Laos itself members of the U.N. fact-finding mission trying to get into the frontier village...
Even Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan hastily dropped his unruffled "Supermac" pose. "The Labor Party is deeply divided," he told a London suburban crowd. "Some are practically fellow travelers, some almost Communist." And in speech after speech during a tour of Scotland the Prime Minister boldly laid claim to credit for the greatest diplomatic event of the year. "Do you think," he asked, "that Mr. Khrushchev and President Eisenhower would have been discussing together at Camp David if I had not decided to break the ice and go to Moscow last winter...
...week's end, the argument that still raged on TV and on the hustings was whether Britain's prosperity was being properly distributed and who could best spread it and keep it going. As Britain's ruling party for the last eight years, the Tories could claim with some truth that they were the builders of Britain's current boom. But against that. Labor could appeal to the deep-rooted British feeling that no party should be kept in office too long. As election day approached, most of Britain's political experts cagily refused...
Shortly after Maddix's speech, New York City labor leader Harry A. Van Arsdale, Jr. charged Blue Cross with "tolerating excessive hospital costs" and keeping labor out of its administration. Unless they can have more of a say in Blue Cross, labor leaders claim they will start their own health plans and hospitals. (It might be added that hospital officials thought the "tolerating excessive costs" charge ironic in view of the attempt of unions to organize underpaid non-professional hospital workers last spring.) Furthermore, national health insurance, while not a political football at present, could easily become so with enough...