Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the durable old man who had led the retreat: "I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is humiliating as hell. We ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake...
...Russian strategy can be seen at work on many fronts. In Austria the Russians claim 50% of all Austrian industry...
Aloof Charles de Gaulle could claim at least a half victory. The vote showed that he could not buck the coalition, but he had emerged the largest single influence in France, larger than any one party. Frenchmen wondered if De Gaulle would accept (if offered) a presidency which, as set up in the new constitution, he considered weak and ineffectual...
...Nippon Times, his eye lit on an editorial reprinted from the Tokyo daily Jiji Shimpo. "Japanese teachers," he read, "have the habit of blind worship for . . . the man in power. . . . They used to endeavor to instill in the minds of their pupils that the Emperor was God. Now they claim that General MacArthur is the Savior.. .. Until the Japanese are cleansed of this servile concept, democracy in Japan will make no progress...
...came from the U.S. Export-Import Bank) still had plenty of "ifs" to it. Important production will not get under way before early next year, and the full output of 750,000 tons of steel per year will not be reached until even later. Volta Redonda's critics claim that the plant is badly placed, that the output will be high-cost. Iron ore must travel south from the rich Minas Geraes deposits over a rickety railroad. Coal comes north from the Santa Catarina mines by an inefficient ship & rail combination...