Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Permanent Possession. In the Pacific, complexities were almost as numerous as the flyspeck islands. The U.S. wanted to draw a military Equator across that ocean and assert its claim to one-power control of everything north of the line. The military Equator closely follows the geographic, save for a zig to the north to exclude Dutch Morotai, and a zag to the south to take in Australian-mandated Manus. South of this line (in Indonesia and Melanesia) the U.S. would be content with transit privileges for ships and aircraft...
...eyes of the world, and particularly those of Asia," he said, "are upon us looking for assurance that we, as the most powerful country in the world, are really at the forefront of democracy, as we claim: assurance that--the Atlantic Charter applies to the Pacific." As a consequence, however, of our inertia, Sheeks claimed "we are slowly forcing upon them the conviction that militarization is the only...
...next half-dozen years he proved his claim. He extricated the brotherhood from 30 of its 36 fiscal schemes. But he also implicated it and himself in a messy $10,000,000 bank failure-Cleveland's short-lived Standard Trust Bank, successor to the Engineers' National...
...here's a few other things," resumed Engineer Jackson, deliberately. "We want sick leave, and vacations with pay. And if we got to make a statement to a claim agent we want to get paid regular time for it. And then there's this technical matter of terminal...
Canyons, in City and Country. But O'Keeffe's chief claim to fame lies in the brilliant hardness of her most ambitious work. Her cityscapes look as unyielding as asphalt, and sharp as broken glass; her barns are as antiseptic as hospitals; her crosses as forbidding as the real thing...