Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certain reputation as an antiFascist. He did have trouble with Mussolini, but their fights were due more to delinquency than to politics. When he went to Brussels to claim his bride, an exiled anti-Fascist took a badly aimed shot at him. Ever after he raised his hand in the Fascist salute and, like his father, gave the Duce no trouble. Lately, ordinary Italians have dubbed him lo stupido nazionale and il buffone (clown...
Secret Army. How strong is the Underground Army? The Poles claim 300,000 men, but this is probably an exaggeration. It is an army bivouacked deep in the homeland's pine and birch forests. It uses light arms cached by the old Polish Army, snatched from the Germans or parachuted from abroad. As a rule it has, until recently, avoided open battle with the heavily armed occupation forces...
...equipment. 46 million dollars of the Office's budget were delegated to radar and radio co-ordination" development; nearly 20 million dollars went to "subsurface warfare" work--the science of killing U-boats. Officials are proud of developments in the latter field which are already in use; they privately claim much of the credit for the recent low rate of ship sinkings...
...perhaps Eric Johnston's critics miss his true significance and value. He lays no claim to being a thinker. "You go around talking to people, experiencing new sights and sounds," he says, "and you polish yourself like the facets of a diamond." Eric Johnston is pre-eminently a middleman-a middleman of ideas, a believer in the middle of the road. As such he gets top marks...
Many Egyptians blame the epidemic on the British, claim the British brought Anopheles gambiae, the most dreaded malaria-carrying mosquito, to the area via Nubia from the Sudan. They also blame the British for buying up Egypt's food, causing undernourishment which makes the fellahin highly susceptible to disease. Actually, the British buy no corn at all from Egypt, buy no wheat without permission from the Government. Real reason the fellahin are starving: they get only about 2O? a day to feed themselves and their families, from landlords who run the region on the feudal system. Now even...