Word: assert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Have Simply Evaded." Ex-Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles deplored the "wide and growing rift in the basic political understanding between the three major Allies." He urged the U.S. to assert bold leadership, to hurry up a Big Three meeting, to call the United Nations together and place all political problems in the lap of a Security Council...
Stressing that "Germany has not always been an aggressor," Professor Vietor points out that she "was a peaceful nation in the time of Goethe, Schiller, and the Romanticists." He states, however, that a change came at the end of the nineteenth century, when the country desired to assert itself and oppose the "have" nations such as England...
...Proved His Point. The man who runs this airway is tough, gruff Brigadier General Lawrence G. Fritz, onetime operations vice president for the T.W.A. When he was A.T.C.'s operations chief in Washington, he used to assert: "The North Atlantic . . . can be flown both east and west on regular schedule in winter as well as summer...
...California, the report features contributions by Professors Elton Mayo, George F. F. Lombard, John B. Fox, and Jerome F. Scott. While the men concede that the financial loss in labor turnover and absenteeism resulting from neglect of worker morale can be over-looked by firms enjoying wartime prosperity, they assert that the defect may prove fatal to many companies in the highly competitive period expected after hostilities cease...
...Roch's voyages are patrols to assert Canadian sovereignty over the Artic...