Word: assert
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...afraid that the defeat of Primo Carnera last night by Joe Louis will be interpreted as an additional insult to the Italian flag, which will permit Mussolini to assert again the necessity for Italy to annihilate Ethiopia...
...innkeeper's wife was so squint-eyed that habitues would order a drink from one end of the bar, then slink quickly to the other end, where the drink would be served. It was the great ambition of the baker's old father, a paralytic, to assert his independence by running away to the cemetery, but as the little cart on which he propelled himself could only move in a circle, he never got there. Aunt Tirelo, like David Copperfield's Mr. Dick, was engaged on an endless historical work, proving that the sorrows of France were...
...cannot in honesty assert to you that to increase that deficit this year by two billion two hundred million dollars will in itself bankrupt the United States. Today the credit of the United States is safe. But it cannot ultimately be safe if we engage in a policy of yielding to each & all of the groups that are able to enforce upon the Congress claims for special consideration. We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want. I do not need to be a prophet to assert that if these certificates...
...poor Secretary Ickes. In a fight in which he had no interest, he was made to take the whole blame for the autocracy of his superior. How pathetic and weak he seemed when reporters asked him about the Moses case! All he could do in his defence was re-assert again and again his boredom about the whole matter. Then finally having been released from carrying through such an impossible and unjust action, he must make silly, hypocritical excuses for the whole affair, and let the world despise him more. Let us hope that he refinds his strength in worshipping...
...except with the hope of rousing hatred, animosity and wants that he knows cannot be supplied? "Month after month the Senator from Louisiana has disgusted this body with repeated attacks upon men who are superior to him . . . now it is about time that the manhood in the Senate should assert itself. ... I have spoken earnestly, and I realize that there are those who are listening to me who will say, 'Why pay attention to the ravings of one who anywhere else than in the Senate would be called a madman...