Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mains established his claim to a starting role on the mound in the Yale game yesterday when he set Boston Latin down 9 to 1, allowing a meagre three hits, whiffing eleven men, and walking only two in an air-tight performance...
...signs were that Chiang Kai-shek's light-hearted mercenaries of deadly aim would soon be back in Federal service like their seam-faced leader Claire L. Chennault, recently taken off the retired list and made a Brigadier General. (The Navy and Marine Corps had a claim to some of them too; as many had been trained at Pensacola as at Randolph Field...
...democratic spirit and complete lack of operations formalities may never be equaled. Nor will their record of performance soon be equaled. In their show, always against heavy odds, A.V.G. knocked down more than 200 Jap planes, lost only 16 pilots. Even some of those 16 the Jap could not claim. They were lost in forced landings and in the occasional wild flying that is inseparable from the air work of a high-spirited outfit like the Fei Hu (Flying Tiger...
Doriot's claim, as Vichy had tried in farcical vain to prove at the discontinued Riom war-guilt trial, was that France-far from having been sabotaged by stupid militarists and demagogues of his own changeable colorations -had been "be trayed" by democratic leaders. A bomb tossed at him on April 20 had missed its mark. Frenchmen read into his Bayonne speech not only The Great's reply to the bombing but a new bid for power...
...courtyard to be "the beauty spot of Cambridge." Elephant supporters rose in revolt to protest, only to be met by a Lowell statement that their courtyard contains a dogwood, four lilacs, and a cherry. Latest word from "The Latter-Day Eden" is that they expect to counter the Lowell claim by pointing out that their courtyard has Merriman ad a large tree...