Word: assert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...think I am overstating to assert that if our Government had gone through with the terms of the National Defense Act of June 4, 1920,*it is quite possible that we would not be involved in this terrible situation of today. There was laid down in the law a very comprehensive plan for the military security of the United States. I cannot believe that the German War Party would have dared to become involved in a war to which we were to be a party...
...attitude of the University toward us has been characteristically open-minded," assert officials of the Harvard Pacifist Association, which consists of 14 men who believe that war in itself is wrong and whose conscience permits them no part in the war effort. The group meets weekly for comradeship and discussion...
...what the white residents called "nigger trouble." A young Negro had sat in the white section on a bus, starting a row. Then word spread that a Negro preacher was saying that now, while white men and boys were away in the Army, was the time for Negroes to assert their rights...
...belief that the rule of the people, fumbling though it often is will ultimately result in fewer mistakes than any dictatorship of a self-appointed clite. Faced by a new aristocracy of the "expert," Professor Friedrich, himself a high ranking member of that aristocracy, is still sufficiently plebian to assert his faith in the common man's capacity for self-government. This faith is "an extraordinary one." Historically considered, it has often remained inarticulate, since by nature "the intellectual is predisposed toward the uncommon man: he strives to be uncommon." But let the uncommon man, the trained expert, be faced...
...small-time farmers produce much-needed foodstuffs. But the Farm Bureau and their Congressmen hate FSA with a real and poisonous hatred; FSA helps impoverished Negroes and whites to own their own 40 acres and a mule, to gain independence, to pay their poll taxes, to assert their rights as individuals...