Word: asserted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revised Code, and the Board's approval of the controversial Baby Doll, however, is a sign that the industry is freeing itself from the undue influence of particular groups in regard for a broader popular taste and artistic integrity. Perhaps with time and with liberal support, the industry will assert itself towards removing these hindrances to free expression and will raise the stature of the American cinema to a creative art. As Sam Goldwyn said, speaking for the industry, "We should and must have the same right as any other medium to say what we think, and to show what...
...Saudis never let Aramco forget that it is a private enterprise allowed to exist only by sufferance of the King. To underline the point, King Saud has gone out of his way to assert his political independence of the U.S. After a four-year trial, Saud politely ejected a Point Four mission on the ground that it was too bossy. In 1953 the Saudi government accepted a military assistance agreement, only to cancel it before it went into effect because it was contingent on too much U.S. supervision. The U.S. was allowed to build the Dhahran airfield itself only with...
...Teaching Law in the Liberal Arts Curriculum," Berman goes on to assert that without such study one of the most important aspects of social life is omitted from the curriculum...
...Macmillan is deeply interested in European integration, because he feels that it is bad for Britain to feel pushed around and overshadowed. Europe has been and still should be a great force in the world. Other areas have combined, and there is no reason Europeans should not combine to assert, protect and expand those valuable things for which they stand in the world. Looking to the future, Macmillan thinks that perhaps one source of increased British self-confidence will be found in closer economic and political ties with Europe. That does not mean weaker ties with...
...Chinese Communists will probably continue to encourage revolutionary movements in Asia, Friedrich and Brzezinski assert. "There is also no doubt," the authors state, "that the areas of conflict and unrest in the Middle East will provide the Soviet Union with ample opportunities for political maneuvers to set in motion a revolutionary chain of events...