Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard liberals continuously assert their commitment to respecting the rights of the minority, the voiceless, the marginalized. Their hypocrisy lies in their conveniently changing definitions of what constitutes a "true" minority...
...kids don't know much about that. But never mind. Televised westerns have filled the gap, imbuing them with the spirit of benign outlawry. They assert it first in the richly comic sequence in which they try to hide their horse from the police (who are in league with a rich man who wants to turn Tir na nOg into a champion jumper) in their tiny apartment. They maintain it as they move on into the west, where one of their refuges is, appropriately, a movie theater closed for the night. The sweetly funny improvisations of their flight through...
...panelists urged women to assert themselves with harassers by ending their "silent complicity," saying that silence will exacerbate the harassment...
...course, collegiate athletics back when Clark was hitting serves and diving for volleys may not have quite resembled today's high-tech, money-generating sports, and many coaches (including retiring football coach Joe Restic) assert that the way we play the games we play these days lacks the amateur spirit that Clark represents...
...course, collegiate athletics back when Clark was hitting serves and diving for volleys may not have quite resembled today's high-tech, money-generating sports, and many coaches (including retiring football coach Joe Restic) assert that the way we play the games we play these days lacks the amateur spirit that Clark represents...