Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Formosa, must come back into China. Korea must be independent. "Part of Indo-China used to be Chinese territory and there are some Chinese living there. But we have no aspirations with regard to Indo-China, Thailand or any other place of that sort." Asked whether China would claim Hong Kong (from the British), Diplomat Soong answered: "If I were a member of your Government in Britain, answering questions in Parliament, I would say 'I must have notice of that question...
...rounds of Congressional cloakrooms: "Don't be too sure. An awful lot of the rubber we are short of went into the construction of Donald Nelson." When the House revised the Senate's anti-strike bill, she reported it had "so many teeth in it labor could claim it was written by an Elks' convention...
...Samuel Holden of London, granted 400 pounds "to build a Chapple for Use of ye College" at Cambridge. Finally completed in 1744, it might possibly challenge Christ Church's claim of being the oldest church building in Cambridge...
Companion volumes by the same authors list Tibetan syllables according to phonetic values (English alphabetical order), Tibetan verbs, commonplace chater for travelers. But Gould & Richardson lope that their students, will not be unmoved by Tibetan's poetic quality, claim hat the language challenges Chinese in its imagery. The name, for example, of one of he most glorious Himalayan pinnacles, Canchenjanga, third highest in the world, means "The Five Storehouses of the Great Snow...
...best fighter plane." A mediocre low-altitude pursuit ship can give short shrift to a crack medium fighter caught hedgehopping. But for nailing enemy bombers and escorting friendly ones at really high altitudes (25,000 to 40,000 ft.), it looks as if the U.S. can now claim the title. So say the pilots who fly the Thunderbolt...