Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right to live constitutes a claim of fundamental nature. The right to live includes the right to the soil, which alone gives life. For this claim peoples have even fought when a lack of wisdom threatened to interfere with their relationship, for they knew that even bloody sacrifices are better than the gradual dying off of nations. National unity was our first demand. Piece by piece and move by move this was realized...
...Nots. Whoever has not anything will not get anything either. All my life I have been a have-not. I count myself as one of their number and have fought for them. Now again, I enter the fight as the representative of the havenots. I will never recognize the claims of others to that which they have gained by force and robbery. In no case will I permit this claim to apply to what has been taken from...
Defense did not claim that Harvard students were as yet in favor of war. We did say that there was a noticeable trend in that direction. We did say that the logic which students were following would likely lead to that position eventually. We were careful, however, to make it clear that at the present time only a majority of those favoring aid, not a majority of the college, were ready to go all the way if necessary...
Gadfly Shinwell then gave some pertinent figures to back up his claim that shipping losses were "ominous": in 14 war months Britain has lost 2,500,000 tons of shipping, plus more than half a million tons of Belgian and Dutch shipping, bringing the total beyond 3,000,000 tons. Since the beginning of July, shipping losses have been at the rate of 4,000,000 tons a year. Against this the Admiralty's shipbuilding program aimed at only 1,250,000 tons in the first war year, and even this figure was not reached. Lord Beaverbrook had upped...
Jefferson is one of the two U. S. Presidents (the other: Lincoln) who did not claim membership in any church. But he spent his spare evenings at the White House and Monticello with paste pot and shears, clipping and collating Greek, Latin, French and English Bibles in parallel columns. Fear of being "exposed to the malignant perversions of those who make every word from me a text for new misrepresentations and calumnies" kept him from ever publishing it. The Government later bought the manuscript from his family, placed it in the Smithsonian, where it still remains...