Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dissenters grant Wolfe a large talent, but claim that his technical deficiencies prevented him from fully realizing his potentialities. Such critics are appalled by what they consider Wolfe's undisciplined and often pointless verbosity, his naive egotism and his outrageous lack of organized knowledge about the modern world. Bernard De Voto summed up this view in four words: "Genius is not enough...
...Firm Bite. No, he didn't fear that the Communists' strike tactics were costing them votes. While the party's strength held fast in the north, "its greater energy" was making deep inroads into the rural south (and recent small-town elections support this claim). He was especially happy over the party's successful proselytizing of the stubbornly conservative "contadini" (peasants), who have everywhere been the Marxists' highest hurdle: "In population percentage our strongest local federation in Italy is in Siena-in the heart of Tuscany's vineyards and olive groves...
...Richard Haman, a ranch manager, last week filed a formal claim to the water in all the clouds passing over his 12,000-acre Rocking F Ranch near Reno. He was not cloud-cuckoo-land-crazy. He intends, he explained, to sprinkle dry ice on some of the clouds, and he wants full title to the rain he may bring down, wherever it falls...
Haman may not win his claim on the clouds as private property, but his maneuver may help to solve a legal puzzle. In many arid regions, such as the U.S. Southwest, rain falls spottily, bringing good crops to some areas and drought to others nearby. Rainmaking with dry ice dropped from airplanes may change the distribution-perhaps in the Rocking F Ranch's favor...
...properties grabbed by the Russians as German assets really belong to Austrians, in the U.S.-British view. Said Marshall: "Exactly what is it the Soviet Union wants from Austria? What properties, interests or values? . . . Both the Austrian people and the Allies are entitled to know what the claim...