Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news aroused men in a dozen nations, from the Italian sailors who pondered serving under Stalin, to the Turks who wondered if the U.S. were going to press for Russian access to the Black Sea through the Bosphorus. Frenchmen, Yugoslavs and Greeks suddenly realized that they, too, had a claim to some of Italy's ships. But for once Franklin Roosevelt had scooped Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin on a big piece of news...
...extravaganza is Mr. Wolper's first venture in the producing field and it should teach him not to listen to the Broadway theorists who claim that all you need for a hit these days is a couple of name stars, lavish, sets and costumes, and unusual lighting effects...
...slammed blindly through their protecting smoke screen. Planes and barrages smote the Monte Cassino Abbey positions, but when infantrymen tried to press forward the Germans were still dug in on the mountain and pouring back murderous patterns of machine-gun fire. As at Anzio, the best the Allies could claim was stalemate...
Only the dead knew Hollis. Only those tablets of names of men long since gone can lay claim to an understanding of Thomas Hollis' gift of almost two centuries' standing. For the hermitage of Hollis has passed from generation to generation of men down to today, when Hollis' cycle is complete...
...tempered Kelly Turner and hot-tempered Holland Smith get along fine -now. Says General Smith: "I like that guy. We fought. We argued like hell. We were nasty to each other. But when we came up from the mat we were friends." Why the Marines? Some theorists claim that marines are good fighters be cause they must always fight, war or peace. More than once Army officers have tried to abolish the Marine Corps -Douglas MacArthur as Chief of Staff had the last notable try. Many a West Pointer will still argue that the picked troops of the Marine Corps...