Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalin still had the magnificent will to resist of the Russian people-who had as much claim to glory as the British people had when they withstood the blitz of 1940. But a strong people had not prevented the loss of White Russia and the Ukraine. Would they be any better able to prevent the conquest of the Don basin, of Stalingrad, of the Caucasus? The strongest will to resist can eventually crack under continued defeat...
...southward in an advance (toward Kotel-nikov) which tightened the grip on the Germans at Stalingrad. Stones in Berlin. In the areas of the chief Russian drives the Germans admitted that they had to "shorten their lines." They said that the Russians had opened some gaps; they failed to claim that all the holes had been closed. But nowhere did the Germans attempt strategic retreats, or show the slightest sign that they intended to withdraw to safer winter lines. Wherever Axis troops lost a position, they gave it up only when they were killed, wounded or captured. The Axis forces...
...addition to its detailed tuning record, the Nielsen Radio Index can claim a further advantage over radio's two most successful audience surveys, the Crossley and Hooper, which get their information by telephone: the Nielsen Audimeter can tap the great rural majority of radio homes which are without telephone service. But not even the Audimeter can tell whether anyone is listening to a turned-on radio...
...order with a true seaman's pleasure ("his mighty nose snuffed up the spray's champagne"), he takes the "sweet sailer and . . . good earner" Daniel Webster out to the Grand Banks with a weather eye peeled for wartime trouble. Aboard are two new men, Danes by their claim-Conrad and Holger...
...Cuba, President Batista said, the only elements that would not applaud such a move are Cuban Falangists, now being rounded up in droves as fifth columnists. Possibly there was some hyperbole in Batista's claim that an invasion of Spain would receive "a total ovation for the Allied cause throughout all Latin America." But, by being blunt, Batista expressed for the first time the sentiments of millions of good friends of democracy in the Western Hemisphere who are tired of apologies and flatteries for Franco...